WARNING: TRUTH AHEAD (UPDATED)

IT'S TIME SOMEONE TOLD THE TRUTH,

AND I'M NOT AFRAID OR ASHAMED.

WE WERE BEATEN TO THE AGE OF INSANITY,
MY MOTHER, MY SISTER AND ME.

THE REST OF THE FAMILY WILL DENY

THIS FACT TO THEIR DYING BREATH,

THE SHAME OF IT ALL BEING INCONCEIVABLE
AT THAT TIME,
IN THE 1960s
NOWHERE TO GO,
NOWHERE TO HIDE.

BUT IF TRUTH BE TOLD,

EVERYONE PLAYED A PART,

MY SISTER AND MOTHER BEAT ME
TO THE POINT OF BLOOD.

AND MY DEAR SISTER?
SHE LOCKED ME IN CLOSETS WHEN NO ONE ELSE WAS AROUND,
NOT THAT MOTHER DEAR WOULD HAVE HELPED.

BUT I FINALLY OUTGREW MY OLDER SISTER AND COULD RECIPROCATE.

AND THE TAUNTS AND TEASINGS
AND JUST PURE MEANNESS,

TO THIS VERY DAY CONTINUE

WITHOUT PROVOCATION AND TO MY HORROR.

O, IF ONLY GOD HAD PLACED ME IN A LOVING CHRISTIAN FAMILY.

WHO WOULD CHERISH ME AND RAISE ME UP IN THE WAY I SHOULD HAVE BEEN BORN

INTO THE PERSON I WAS MEANT TO BE.
BUT IF HE HAD,
WOULD I TURN OUT TO BE THE ME I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE?

BUT I WILL BE WITH JESUS
HOPEFULLY SOONER RATHER THAN LATER,
AND EVERYTHING SHALL BE FORGOTTEN,
A DISTANT MEMORY,
AND MY HEAVENLY DADDY WILL CHERISH ME
FOREVER.

1 JOHN 5:5

WHO IS IT THAT OVERCOMES THE WORLD?

ONLY THE ONE WHO BELIEVES 

THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD.