Another Part

part one is here: http://isurvivedintact.blogspot.com/2007/06/i-remember.html

My story is sounds and shadows

Breaths, sighs, moans
quiet, secretive

A figure watching in the dark
above my bed, in the corner, in the doorway

No physical pain
just an internal folding in
constant and necessary and silent

I became four
--angry
--hopeless
--sadness
--wee one

Each part needed for survival
each part allowed me to keep the whole
separate but united in one cause
keep us safe

*i have to stop here for now*