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Here is a poem called Hiding:
Hiding is safest,
don’t feel now, just hide.
Don’t show your true colors,
your faces or sides.
It’s not worth to be seen,
it hurts to be discarded.
People don’t care,
people are mean.
It is so blank and empty,
My head is fog and smoke.
It’s loud inside and feels busy.
I feel like I will choke.
Hiding is a must,
how can you trust?
Don’t you feel this burden,
that is pain from the past?
How can you smile,
when you look in the mirror?
How do I mask?
How do I pass?
I can’t breathe!
– By the Stronghold System written in 2014. –
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As always, we encourage you and your System to follow your own truth, to soul search, to find words, labels, visions, theories and communities that aren’t only within your values but also match your lived experience and/or long term goals, so that you might find belonging and don’t have to try to fit in.
Thank you for investing the time to read this article. Please, feel free to leave comments or feedback in the comment section.
About the authors
The Stronghold System are the proud volunteer founders & CEO of The Plural Association Nonprofit. They are from the Netherlands and reside in a 30-something-year-old body, are nonbinary, parents of an amazing child & 3 cats. They got diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder over 10 years ago & also self ID as Plural.