Wounds

Author’s Note: Content warning – this piece deals with the topic of self-harm. Reader’s discretion.

There are scars on her wrists, her thighs, her heart.

Wounds that may fade but will permanently etch her skin and soul.

Reminders of where she’s been.

Reminders that she crawled through hell to be where she stands now.

Reminders that she was once her own adversary,

along with the rest of the world.

Wounds she gave herself to numb the pain of the injury others caused her.

Wounds she gave herself to feel

nothing,

something,

everything.

Wounds she would always see

but never regret.

They were part of her story, her past –

part of her.

Savannah Watson