The abuse of power starts small.
Caution: This story describes child abuse.
Read “The Seeds of Power”
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About W.R.R.W.R.R. is a survivor of 18 years of sexual abuse and torture. He started writing poetry at a very young age to escape the horrors of his life. His writing gives the reader a true glimpse into the psyche of a struggling survivor. He recently put his efforts into becoming an advocate, focusing on public awareness of the impact on survivors who endured incest, child sexual abuse, and human trafficking, as well as letting other survivors know that they are not alone. W.R.R. lives in the Houston area with a new family that love and support him on his healing journey every day. His hope is to write a book to share his story. His essays and poetry can be found at www.asashesscatter.com and he can be found at @AsAshesScatter on Twitter.
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[...] Read W.R.R.’s previous contribution to The Good Men Project, a chilling story of his childhood: The Seeds of Power. [...]
If you’re interested in reading more from this brave and incredible man, go to his Journal at: http://asashesscatter.com/
I am teary eyed reading this. The one thing I tried to do for my children. The one thing above all else, was to provide a loving safe place to nuture them and watch them grow. Stories of abuse (your’s is one of the worst) make me full of rage, sadness and ill all at once. But your story of survival and flourishing with a loving family of your own are truely uplifting. May God bless you and watch over you and yours.
Bravo, you are the victor!
I agree. You are the victor: your words, your serenity, your open heart and honesty to share with us this story. But most of all, the victory is your life today, your family, children, being THE author of the kind of life and ethics you choose to live by. That’s a major triumph, and I have known it too (as an ex victim of CSA, incest and explotaition), slowly, knowing as you say that are things that will be never made right, but we cope, and come to find our ways to stay grounded in a sort of garden (our home, our loved ones, our hearts) that we fiercely and lovingly defend from new abuses. My hope breathes with the image of that garden conquering so much territory, that it reaches cities, countries, the whole world. Child abuse of boys and girls must be extinguished one day. In the meantime we talk, we open ayes, we demand changes, prevention, alert, restless….as we go on living the lives we forever, since the beginning, deserved.
So grateful for reading your testimony. It made me fall in pieces, but then, it reminded me of everything I believe and cherish, as THE path for healing
un abrazo desde CHile,
Vinka Jackson
My heart goes out to you because as former O & M Specialist I realize that your pain was not just on that day but continues even now.
Your father was looking for an excuse to attack, if anything he looked at the clock and thought, Oh boy I get to beat the kid. I’ve worked with a Spouce Abuse center and a Child Abuse center and both types of abusers are esentually the same. In fact the motivation for many women to leave is to protect the kids from the husband. It’s also a wonder that you didn’t kill him and just ran away. I have a lady friend that at the age of fifteen she had to hit the streets to get away from her uncle that was beating and sexually asaulting her. That’s always a really rough way to have to go but it was better than staying.
As several of the others have said I applaud you for speaking out. Many would have said it was a wreck or war injury and just stayed quite.
Thank you all for the encouragement and kind words. It was hard to write, some events are harder than others to share; but speaking out is the first step to healing. I hope to help other survivors, of any gender or orientation, to know that they can speak out if they’ve been abused. My journal at http://asashesscatter.com is my voice. – W.R.R.