731 Days

Dear Father, It’s been two years. Two years since my voice was louder than yours, to the point you were officially silenced. Two long years of my highest highs and lowest lows. Some days felt like I was drowning and I was suffocating with every breath I would take, as if water were flooding my …

365 Days

you never realize the length of a year, until it becomes a countdown. you watch as the sun rises. you watch as it sets. you count the stars in the sky. you watch as the seconds tick by slowly. suddenly, your life is a waiting game. 365 days ago, was the day my life became …

Survivor

I am many things, but I am not a victim. Victim is a word that brings shame to me. It causes the flashbacks to flood through my mind like an open river. I am a survivor and this is my story. I was ten years old. I just moved from New York to Texas, to …