Monday, September 7, 2020

Emotional Flashbacks

Unanswered texts pile up like

the clothes I haven't washed like 

the thoughts in which I am lost like

the tears staining my pillows like

the dark clouds seeping in from the windows like

the trauma swelling within me 

ready      to       burst.


Sometimes there is no safe space 

when your brain continues to terrorize you 

even after your abusers have left.

Sometimes there is only the time

between this flashback and the next.


-Liz

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