Tag: trauma
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Generational Trauma
You only knew a war zone too You were attacked directly Burying your pain In thousands of landmines You were able to stop the war But you forgot about the landmines I may not have been attacked directly The explosives I triggered were just as deadly Read more
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I’m Programmed to React Like a Three Year Old
Other people don’t have visceral reactions When their buttons are pushed They don’t have three year old reactions Overwhelming their logic Threatening to engulf them in a tsunami of pain I do I am battered daily by this wall of water When others only ripple Read more
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I Know I’m Healing, But My Trauma Still Makes Me Cry
I wrote the following words last August, when I was finally brave enough to face my fear and look at my trauma head on. It took an entire day for the words to pour out of me. I couldn’t keep them inside me anymore. I have not gone back and read them since, so this Read more