The Child In Me Alone Inside My Sanity
Memoirs of a Ghetto Child
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GHETTO MOM Kneeling By A Tattered Bed No Clothes For School A Broken Soul And. All That's Left Is What We Ain't Got And God Knows That's No Ticket Out!!!!!! So Chug... Chug... Choo... Chooooooooooo All Aboard The Ghetto Train
A Battered Mom No Longer Wed
Her Head Bowed Low
Her Heart Beats High
All She Does Is Cry And Cry
No Food For Tummies
No Gifts For Birthdays
Mom Has No Money
Breeds
A Violated Mind
When Forced To Live On Borrowed Time
Making All Stops To Poverty And Pain!!!!!!
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About the Book
The pages of Aryonna Bella’s life fell like autumn leaves preparing for winter’s chilly blast and life’s unrelenting storms. Naked and obscured, she toiled through the seasons of sexual, racial, and societal revolution, refusing to become a statistic. In her book, The Child in Me, Alone Inside My Sanity, Aryonna takes you on a journey to the back roads of yesteryears, down a rarely forged and forbidden path of insanity. The Vietnam War came and went. She remembers the assassinations of John, Martin and Bobby; LSD, food stamps, abortions down back alleys and the demented song, "He’s Coming to Take Me Away", hits the Top 10. Illusions and chaos that flooded the nation around her only book marked what was going on inside her hidden world. Unresolved, suppressed misery brought forth future sorrow in the life of a child who mentally stop growing beyond the moments of unjustified trauma. Now on the other side, she emerges into the spring time of her existence, transformed from her life of abuse, abandonment, self-pity and self destruction to become a woman, a wife, a mother, an a queen who dares to sit and rule in the soundness of mental vigor! She chronicles her path of healing and recovery in an insightful and creative manner allowing the reader to take a seldom experienced journey into the heart and mind of the mentally ill who refuse to stay that way. She drives your reason and intellect to new levels of emotional involvement, challenging you to feel with your soul without judging with heartless minds. Travel with her through the seasons of life, love and death and ponder the path of those who have fallen but manage through significant odds to get back up and live . . . survive . . . and thrive.
About the Author
Aryonna Bella Waters is a surviving forty-nine-year-old African-American mother of six home schooled gifted and talented children. She has been married to a gracious and loving husband for twenty-seven years while learning to overcome the horrors of sexual abuse, maternal suicide, and paternal abandonment. She attended a private four-year college in Washington State majoring in nursing. After three years of pursuing her degree, she left unaccomplished due to severe clinical depression that surfaced during mid-terms and finals. She finally left her junior year to seek answers and find the self she had lost as a child. Today she enjoys music, bottle water and sunsets on a warm and quite beach. She has helped to co-facilitate a grief survivors group at the hospital she had been committed to seven times for psychiatric treatment. She manages a herbal health business, home schools two of the remaining six children, teaches nutrition and health classes in the community, and is the director of a twenty-seven member children’s spiritually based outdoor recreational club. She journals and writes poetry in her quiet more rational moments. She delights in soothing wounded minds that have been scorned, torn, and beat up by the supposedly sound who hold the reins of sanity who are in fact everything but . . . sane!