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	Healing Clergy Abuse By Mary Rucci National Survivor Advocates Coalition May 29, 2011 http://nationalsurvivoradvocatescoalition.wordpress.com/___-9/ Thanks for keeping us up to date with the latest regarding clergy abuse. It sure does never end. I was going through some of my papers I saved when my son was suffering so from clergy abuse; in 2009 I wrote this poem: HEALING CLERGY ABUSE The wounds of abuse are raw and deep from the top of my head to the soles of my feet and to a precious child, the damage complete How to undo such enormous pain-was God in the room-did he see the insane? this evil act from a priest, so devine, to my person, to me, to all that is mine The pain from this memory, finally unleashed, hurts my hair and my brain, my eyes and my teeth my heart explodes inside my chest, I can't breath, I can't breath, nevermore to rest I am startled from sleep sheathed in sweat each day is a hell with demons unmet but worse than all the horrors that I endure I have lost who I am, of that I am sure What does it take to find the road back when you're so empty, so sad, so far off track it seems too hard, I don't have a map Dear child, be still and just quietly listen to the voice deep within and dwell in that soft place that is truth please be patient and listen For deep within is a strength that defines it is who you are – have been all this time a precious uniqueness the universe requires to make the world complete The wounds of abuse are raw and deep and the scars that you carry may sometimes seep but you'll know who you are and accept what is from the top of your head to the soles of your feet
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