if you are healing from sexual assault and you get out of bed in the morning,
you are doing well.
if you are healing from sexual assault and you hold down a job,
you are amazing.
if you are healing from sexual assault and you are still remotely pleasant to others,
you are a lot nicer than me.
if you are healing from sexual assault and you cannot always be there for a friend,
welcome to the terrordome: if you are healing from sexual assault and you get out of bed in the...
Coffs Harbour, 25 January 2013
All I really have from this day that’ll last are a couple dodgy phone photos. Everything else, including the memories, fresh bruises and sunburn, will fade.
I’ll forget the words he said and the conversations we shared, and the warmth that radiated from him whenever I was close. I’ll forget how he looked and what he wore and how his heartbeat sounded against his chest. I’ll forget the feeling of his lips against mine and how safe yet relieved I felt to be finally in his arms.
