 hanging by neck, by feet, by wrists sometimes upside down, spinning while they beat us, rape us, cut us we scream piercingly when pain is too excruciating for small bodies tortured by large hands, large penises, steel rods. cold steel tables, flat rocks, diverse scenery. higher higher shocks of electricity fragmenting minds to endurance limits. life to death's edge. burning. torture. drugs. hypnosis. mind control. rape. man after man, woman after woman, beast after beast, child after child more than one at a time sometimes. when screams mute into silence only laughter echoes, perverted minds free to violate. no one to stop it no where to turn no one to care of course, thousands of us die. expendables we, the children, caged. tied. cannot move. dare not move. chained. roped. wired. kill. be killed. obey.obey.obey. got to get it right. never get it right punishment. mutilation figure against ground PAIN swallow blood. swallow urine. swallow feces. cold deprived. heat deprived, food deprived sleep deprived. sensory distortions. buried night after night. rats. spiders. snakes in the hole. in the coffin - daylight turned to night occluding blackness. They tell us no one will believe our stories people will say we're crazy we must not tell. we will not escape. they will always find us NO WHERE IS SAFE. These perpetrators, ministers, teachers, lawyers, policemen, judges, politicians, business men. stars. rich, above "reproach", famous, respected. mothers, fathers, siblings, strangers friends. relatives so UNSUSPECTED Can you sit and do NOTHING? I am a survivor of ritual abuse, not of this ilk but enough to know. to recognize stark horror, paralyzing terror, fathomless, tearless LOSS and wordless suffering deep in the eyes of clients and my friends. I listen to their stories repeated from the hells of man's depravity asking you who listen to do so with integrity greater than your disbelief, skepticism, and urge to shut it out, ignore and cover up. HEAR US BELIEVE US can you sit and do NOTHING? ********** Goessoftly Retired therapist. www.goessoftlyishere.com NO reprints allowed (This was written at the request of Ritual Abuse Torture Survivors of which I am not one. I am, however, a Survivor-Therapist)   | LOVE THE CHILD | YOU DO NOT KNOW ME | Contemplating Suicide | ON THE COUCH | Can you sit and do NOTHING ? | LOSS ( a friend) | The Emperor and Silence is a Vote | Two Poems | I MISS You,Friend | | THE HEALING PROCESS | DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER | POETRY | |
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