to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it

the strange thing about healing is that our vocabulary improves much faster than our heart does. long before we’re actually okay, we learn exactly what happened to us. we know the psychology behind it. we can identify the patterns. we often mistake this fluency for closure.

artwork by bahira motaz

don’t use ai to write. use childhood trauma like a real poet.

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