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Dissociative Identity Disorder took care of that

A little girl lay still
Quietly in her bed
Fighting the screams
That roared inside her head

Hiding the fear within
Eyes sealed shut 
Breath contained
Too scared to move

She can longer stay
Too distressed
Her little brain floats away
Splitting itself
Forming new selves to take the pain
Anything to survive
This torturous hell

It's happening to another now
She's safe
Her psyche remains intact
Shielded from the events
Amnesia has taken care of that

When she returns
No longer aware
She continues on
As if nothing had ever happened
Totally oblivious to her own life events
We can thank Dissociative Identity Disorder for that.

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Dismissed! Battles laid down for a dissociative survivor

Thinking about us
I come undone
Looking back I don’t know
Whether we lost or won

Voices in my mind
That I just can’t translate
But I know
I’ll learn to appreciate 

I’m not laying blame
I’m not keeping score
I just wish I could find 
Who I was before

All was taken
And more was lost
A dissociative fugue 
Cost us the lot

What am I supposed to do
When parts of me 
Trapped in the past
Are forced to flee?
Nobody sees
Just how hard this can be

Cut off from reality
Locked inside
Misery remains
Hanging by a noose
The final thread
one day will 
be cut loose

We fight to run
We fight to return
We fight to live
We fight to die
When will the world see
Just how bad the 
trauma was for me

I wasn’t lying
Or making it up
I had medical evidence
That backed me up

I’ll never understand 
How a judge 
Could’ve dismissed that

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Swing Me Home

Clouds and trees
Animals and the bees
High up in the air
Swinging so freely
I see it all 
The landscapes
The moon and stars 
Are all surrounding me

Legs dangling mid air
Breeze blowing 
Hair flowing
My hearts a singing with flair
All while I’m swinging mid air

I’m swinging high in the sky
Close to the stars
But not quite there

The smile on my face
I cannot contain 
Why would I anyways
It’s my happy place 

It feels like home
And it’s swinging me closer 
To the moon and stars above
To the very places I love.