Time Cannot Fix This

Time passes. It passes by unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for you.

You want so desperately to feel normal again. To get back to the routines of life. To not wake up to the numbness. Or the pain. To get up to a cup of perfectly brewed coffee and simply leave the house for work.

You worry late in the night. When the exhaustion of sleep deprivation breaks down your defenses. What the trauma has shown you can’t be unseen. It has rewired your heart.

You’re now vulnerable in a whole new way.