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i don't need anyone to read this and i'm not here to feel validated for what I have experienced in my life. i'm to finally set it all free in one place; i need to set it free. i feel it chewing at me, telling me its time. the trouble is where to begin? i have gaps, like a lot of people here it seems. Some days i have less of them, maybe today is one of those days. My husband isn't home and i'm stalling... I was five. Just barely five, and he was older, much older. He was my mother's boyfriend at
I'm drowning from the inside out. To many memories swarming me all at once. They hit in waves that seem to be endless like an ocean. Everytime they crash over my head I feel the pain and terror they bring with them. Somedays I can stand against them but its tiring. Fighting to seem alright is tiring. I tell myself that I accept what has happened and that the past is the past. Then something happens. It never fails. I get hit by a brand new wave full of stones, and sand. Some day I will make it o
