Take and Take

It took so much from me. It took my sense of self, I didn’t know who I was anymore. Was I the girl that did all the wrong things good girls don’t do?  Could I even trust myself anymore? Do I reconcile the fact that all my actions and decisions landed me in that unlucky place? It took my sense of trust in the world. A world that wounded me and left me to die. A world that inflicted pain upon me in my dire state of neglect from the shame. A world that was not there to protect me when it happened, a world that blamed me into solitude.