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I am Vulnerable Print E-mail
Written by Betty Petterson   

I am Vulnerable
I am sensitive
live is pain
how do we live ?
the task is too big
challenges
tax me
fight me
love me
some times I feel
it can never be done
futility lives
I see the light
then
the darkness
falls again
it is still there
look for the light I'll try again
I will never give up.

Betty Petterson NNAAMI member Australia

 
Searching Eyes Print E-mail
Written by Janet Woititz   

Searching Eyes
Questioning all corners of the room
in split seconds
brows which aspire
to the heights of the forehead
darting cool and some what
unsure fingers
examining the air around her
reassuring her doubtful mind
of the truth of her existence
seeing herself in the mirrors of others minds
she rarely believes her own
accepting her existence as a reflection
the haze rarely clears
the mirror is a glass
and her soul is bare
does she know that she is her own
for real.

Jannet Woititz
Adult Children of Alcoholics

 
I found my child. Print E-mail
Written by Janet Woititz   

I found my child within today
for many years so locked away
loving embracing needing so much
If only I could reach in and touch
I did not know this child of mine
we were never acquainted at three or nine
but today I felt the crying in site
I'm here I shouted come reside
we hugged each other ever so tight
as feeling emerged of hurt and fright
Its ok, I sobbed I love you so
you are precious to me I want you to know
My child My child you are same today
you will not be abandoned I'm here to stay
we laughed we cried it was a discovery
this warm loving child is my recovery.

I found these poems in, The Adult Children Of Alcoholics publication. Author Janet Woititz (Betty Petterson)

 
Desperation Print E-mail
Written by Betty Petterson   

The ambulance siren screams
some one is getting help
the tears fall
who is going to help me
I'm desperate
with no where to run to
know one who knows
or cares
who can I tell
who would believe me
your making it up
they would say
no mother would
want to kill her daughter
couldn't be true
you must have dreamt it
perhaps if I'm really good
I'll try harder
then she might love me.

Betty Petterson NNAAMI member Australia.

 
A little girl cries Print E-mail
Written by Samantha   

"The little girl cries out within
Hold me Protect me
Nurture me
Be here for me Please,
I am 25 years old, a mother since I was four.
I am an adult, but a scared and terrified 4 year old little girl within I struggle with life, with life decisions.
I yearn and I always hoped that my mother would nurture and support me
BE THE MOTHER.
But my dreams and hopes of her are shattered.
I'm a little girl alone.
Struggling to find herself."
"I have a schizophrenic mother." "The Depths of my soul lay open will she let me go? let me go of our past. The past holds me of the madness and the darkness I survived. The emptiness of my soul that I have been left with scares me, of my own sanity. I question it!
I Pray I will not turn out like her."

Samantha.

Copyright NNAAMI April 1997. no printing or reprinting or distribution of this document without the expressed Authority of NNAAMI.
NNAAMI member Australia
 
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