{"id":633,"date":"2016-12-12T10:01:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T10:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/?p=633"},"modified":"2016-12-12T10:01:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T10:01:24","slug":"young-woman-precious-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/?p=633","title":{"rendered":"Young woman, Precious girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Young woman
\nPrecious girl
\nI see you
\nI see your trembling lip
\nThe uncertainty in your eyes
\nThe small\u00a0tear escaping
\nI see your strength
\nI see such courage
\nI see you
\nAnd my heart is breaking
\nMy heart breaks every time I encounter you
\nbecause I know
\nI know exactly\u00a0what you are\u00a0feeling
\nWhat you are thinking
\nbecause in you
\nI see me
\nI see Young Woman me<\/p>\n

Your life has been changed
\nin a moment
\na moment you did not choose
\na moment that robbed you of so much
\nof your innocence
\nof your trusting
\nof you<\/p>\n

Young woman
\nPrecious girl
\nI encourage you to stand strong
\nto speak out
\nas loudly as you dare
\nknowing that I stand
\nI stand beside you
\nto hold you until you are strong enough to stand
\nbeside the next
\nPrecious girl<\/p>\n

Because I\u00a0know
\nwe\u00a0know
\nthere will be more
\nthere are so many more
\ntoo many more
\nlook around your friends precious one
\nthe statistics tell us
\nthat 1 of every 3 of your friends will be sexually assaulted before they are 17
\nthe statistics tell us that living in New Zealand
\nthe place we call Godzone
\nis one of the most dangerous places for you to be
\nSexual assault in New Zealand is endemic
\na far too silent\u00a0epidemic
\nthe silence is\u00a0deafening…<\/p>\n

Young woman
\nPrecious girl
\nI understand your need for silence
\nin your silence you find normalcy
\nwhen something so\u00a0heinous
\nso evil
\nso invasively devastating to your inner being
\nhappens to you
\nyou crave in anyway possible for everything to be \u2018the way it was\u2019 before<\/p>\n

Precious one
\nif your silence is for normalcy
\nthen be silent for as long as you need
\nbe silent while you build strength
\nbe silent and know that I am walking with you<\/p>\n

But
\nif your silence is because of shame
\nthen my Precious One
\nthis\u00a0is so\u00a0NOT\u00a0right
\nThis burden
\nthis shame
\nIs\u00a0NOT\u00a0Yours
\nDo you hear me?
\nI will shout this from the rooftops if I have to
\nDo NOT\u00a0carry the shame of another
\nIt is NOT yours to carry.<\/p>\n

Young woman
\nPrecious girl
\nbe brave
\ntake courage
\nknowing that we are walking beside you
\nwe are breathing fire
\nas we fight for you
\nuntil you can breath your own fire.<\/p>\n

Young woman
\nPrecious girl
\nmy heart is breaking
\nI love you<\/p>\n

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Young woman Precious girl I see you I see your trembling lip The uncertainty in your eyes The small\u00a0tear escaping I see your strength I see such courage I see you And my heart is breaking My heart breaks every time I encounter you because I know I know exactly\u00a0what you are\u00a0feeling What you are … Continue reading “Young woman, Precious girl”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,20,47,4,58,17,49,1,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybigballofstring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}