Scars & Survival
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History was kinderto the swordthan it ever wasto the woman bleeding beneath it. That is how the story goes. A man becomes violentand someone searches his childhoodfor the wound that explains him. A woman becomes angryand suddenlythe anger is the crime. So they wrote Medusabackward. Started with the snakes. Started with the stone. Started with…
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The bruises faded, but the body remembers. A poem about surviving abuse, relearning safety, and blooming from the places once left black and blue.
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Some rescue looks like staying—sitting beside survivors, offering belief and choice, then returning the next morning despite every story carried home.
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In a windowless room, surviving becomes testimony, and healing begins when someone listens to the worst truth without disbelief.
