- Elizabeth Sullivan/EmpowerSurvivors
For many survivors of childhood sexual abuse we spent our childhoods daydreaming, never feeling like we really fit in. We stood on the outside of life looking in and not feeling as though we were a part of what we were seeing.We wondered where our place was. We lived in the past or the future. We wondered why the world was the way it was and would lose ourselves in the clouds and daydream of places we would rather be.
We wondered what was wrong with us, instead of seeing what was right with us. We blamed ourselves for the crimes adults did to us. We kept people at a distance instead of drawing them close to us. We ran from things we didn't understand and because of this at times lost out on love. A love we desperately needed but felt too vulnerable receiving.
Today is a new day.
No need to feel alone any longer.
There is a rising that is happening, a breaking of silence, survivors are finding their voices, breaking the chains of shame and blame that have weighed them down for far too long.
Survivors are rising from the ashes of abuse and becoming the warriors they have always been.
Our time is now. We no longer need to hide. We no longer need to keep the secret and feel like that lost little boy or little girl.
Start a new song, a new chapter.
Hold that child within you, you are free.
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There was a time when I was alone
Nowhere to go and no place to call home
My only friend was the man in the moon
And even sometimes he would go away, too
Then one night, as I closed my eyes
I saw a shadow flying high
He came to me with the sweetest smile
Told me he wanted to talk for awhile
He said, "Peter Pan, that's what they call me
I promise that you'll never be lonely, " and ever since that day
I am a lost boy from Neverland
Usually hanging out with Peter Pan
And when we're bored we play in the woods
Always on the run from Captain Hook
"Run, run, lost boy, " they say to me
Away from all of reality
Neverland is home to lost boys like me
And lost boys like me are free
Neverland is home to lost boys like me
And lost boys like me are free
He sprinkled me in pixie dust and told me to believe
Believe in him and believe in me
Together we will fly away in a cloud of green
To your beautiful destiny
As we soared above the town that never loved me
I realized I finally had a family
Soon enough we reached Neverland
Peacefully my feet hit the sand
And ever since that day
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