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I Am Alive
By Madelyn Larkin i look back at my darkest times and i see how often i lied lied to the people who loved me most promising them i don’t want to die in my darkest times, i thought i had nobody in whom i could confide my comfort was found in slicing up my thighs because i thought that was the only thing that could possibly stop my cries turns out i’m my own best confidant today i am alive today i will thrive today i will accept life for all of its thrown knives i will not dodge them anymore but accept they’re how i learn to survive take the good and the bad because both are essential to my design i am made of broken pieces i am made of the pain i’ve felt each broken piece i’m made of teaches me how to climb out of hell i am alive i love my scars deeply i love my strength even deeper so i will wake up on this beautiful morning and allow my emotions to be felt for i am my own healer
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