HUNGER “You need to eat before you pass out. Hello? Missy? Why aren’t you eating? What's wrong with you?” …hurt hurt, hurt, HURT. Why should I eat, when they starved me for over a …

SARALIVES…ON **Trigger Warning** Never seeing a way out, Corrupted by the greatest enemy of all; …the inner me, "You piece of garbage, Who do you think you are? Why would anyone care for your …

The kitchen table In the house where I grew up Was wooden, cold and stained Came apart in the middle Like so many ruined meals And other realities hard to digest Silences which say …

I don’t remember, I try to see Was it ever better? It had to be I felt it first at the age of three, It came up from the black when it came for …

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The constant shame and self-judgement. The many times I tried to tell someone and froze. Feeling like I was a target for abuse to happen. What had I done to cause it? My innocence …

I look for codeine on the faces of boys, in the taste of thumbs wiping underneath my eyes, in the mattresses with three untucked corners and the stain of loneliness tattooed onto the hem …

In my early years Living in many tears They unknown passed by Which made me tremble As much as the hands that came by

What happens to my trauma? Does it vanish like a magician’s trick? Or does it eat away at me burnt up- empty and sick? Or does it harden me brittle and quick? Or does …