D.I.D

D.I.D

Do you ever really stop to think, what “who are you ?” means to me?

For us it’s not that simple, I am not me, I am we

I am merely one of many, there are many mes inside

It started as a little one, a decent way to hide

For when one suffers trauma, especially when you are wee

You don’t have many ways to live, without this thing called D.I.D

It’s a dissociative disorder, for my identity

It’s how I became an us, and me became a we

Imagine freezing time, when something bad occurs

Imagine it’s no longer mine, it has simply become “hers”

A way to pause the chaos, a younger mind won’t cope

So now it’s not my trauma, it’s hers and I have hope

Now she is not alone, and indeed neither am I

Together is the way we go, together we survive

Now let’s move forward a little bit, something more threatens our soul

But she cannot take another, and to get us from this hole

A third person comes to join us, and helps protect the soul

Now just step into our shoes, and think a little while

Imagine this continued, through life, mile after mile

Freeze time , create a splinter, another one of us

We are all of different ages, we all have different loves

But together we are living, the circuit doesn’t overload

Inside me there are many, this is our abode

We are in no way crazy, we aren’t murderous in kind

A more reasonable bunch of people you will never hope to find

I cannot say where they are, when they are not about

But I’m sure they’ll gladly tell you, when one of them comes out

It’s not a thing we can control, not like flicking on a switch

We are not like a computer , experiencing a glitch

This is very logical, survival at its best

And when any of us needs it, we get to take a rest

This is how we evolved to make it, how we had to deal with strife

It kept us from imploding, it kept us here in life

So please don’t judge unknowing , take the time to hear and see

For I am them, they are us, and we are simply me