Displace Node

Hi all
I’ve been playing around with the displace node to get a rotoed shape to be displaced over an image but instead of displacing it over the top it pushes it under the original image.

This is my original image:
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This is what I get after using the displace node:
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And this is what I would like to get:
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My displace node settings are this:
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Thanks for your help

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