You & Me

Thank you to the survivor who submitted this poem, and the five other poems published over the past few days. We really appreciate you sharing your words with us and other survivors.

A year

since you started to help my broken

Self

stitch-my-skin-back

t-o-g-e-t-h-e-r

Comfort film with

pancake making

Sleeping with you – my naked person

Valentine’s day chocolates and prosecco in

bed

When the stitches

 fall

I held onto

you

Violent crying I can’t                                                                                   (stop)

Raw emotions that open

up the wound

Phantom pains

Force memories back

But you are here

Holding onto me too

fish and chips and

good sex

Your voice comforting me on the train

You

Me

I was broken

I was no longer me

Now I am me

Me with you