Branches Book

BRANCHES

and you’ll see that while it feels like I was the one thrown into the fire I am not the one who will get burned. It’s like the snowflakes that live and breathe don’t exist within my body until they’ve melted and became nothing but the floods that fall from my eyes.

Bloodied fingertips drip as I scream and try to claw my way back out.

There’s nothing left to hold on to.

Fight response.

HELP ME

Hello, is there anyone there? I need help. I don’t know where to go. I don’t know where to find the part of myself that got left behind. Split into two, I am wandering around

searching for the girl that knew how to live and do it without ending up right back here.

Coming to this crossroads, this is the darkest it’s ever been, and I’m not so sure I’ll make it out this time. Everything has gone wrong. Anxiety shows up, as she always does, and before I know it,

I have offered up my body as her new home. I shut my eyes and pretend that, for once, I am the one who is in control.

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