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Last chat with mum; aged 24 (me, aged 24)
Last chat with mum; aged 24 (me, aged 24)
By jfarrell
“now he’s dead, I gotta ask….
“was he my dad? Truly???”
…. “yes”
This is my mum responding….
Her and the ‘truth’….
If she told me water’s wet and leafs are green…
I’d have to check….
….my mum truly believed her lies…
Really…
…
She didn’t get kicked out of the milkman’s house…
1 am in the morning
And walked home naked with her 7 year old daughter screaming at her
What a w……. she was…
No….
My ‘dad’ was flirting with the barmaid again…
….
I was there; I know what happened…
But,
She really, truly believes her lies.
“was he my dad?”
“yes”
….
Deep breath…
Disappointment, anger, relief?
Who knows?
But….
What I asked next was really, REALLY stupid!
A very bad idea…
But
How could I know?
“Ok… ish… he’s my dad…”
Long silence, couple of minutes?… less?… more?…
“what happened back ‘then’? when I was 5? 6?
When uncle brian raped me?
….….
….. we haven’t spoken in nearly 10 years… what you all did hurt….
What happened?”
“your dad told me you’d raped your cousin”
…...
“i was 5…?… 6…?….
…. I wasn’t even physically capable…. 5…6…”
“that’s what your dad told me.”
A couple of deep breaths, from me…
Several seconds…. a minute or two…
Felt like f…. centuries….
….”and I believed him.”
NOT an added aside, an intentional thrust with a stiletto…
Not an attempt to move in for the kill…
On an already injured, badly bleeding target…
No….
She was just being honest.
….OK…
“nan, uncle peter…. di…..”
“well of course I told them about it!”
…..
At least I had the sense to shut up then and not ask if that’s..
What she told her friends…
…..
Haven’t seen or spoken or had anything to do with my ‘mum’
Since that day…
Over 25 years ago…
I will be 50 in a couple of weeks…
My anger, bitterness, hurt….
…..that little mother to son chat….
Is killing me
Poisoning me, like a virus …..
That hate, anger….
Wanting to hurt back…
….
Maybe my mum had mental health problems….
I don’t know….
But..
To so totally, absolutely believe… agree…
At 5… 6… years old…
“your son raped his cousin”….
I don’t totally believe that’s the WHOLE truth…
I will happily call my scumbag ‘dad’ a lot of names…
But.. ‘Liar’ isn’t one that would be honest….
….
…”and I believed him.”….
I don’t know….
Have spent all my pointless life trying to imagine….
WHAT I DID….
That was so bad…
That…
At the age of 5 or 6….
… my mum hated me SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much,
“and I believed him.”
Maybe she’s right ;-)
After all,
Who knows a man better than his mother?
I wish I could forgive and forget…
I wish I could be a son….
I wish I had a mother….
…..
And,
I so wish I wasn’t me…
But…
These are the hands we are dealt.
Sadly….
I fear my bitterness, anger….
Absolute f…… rage…
…after I die….
My hate will continue.
….
Other than my mum, who can rot in hell…
PEACE AND LOVE TO ALL YOU LOVELY WONDERFUL READERS!
