Today, I live

When you've been a victim people give you two choices. Be a victim or be a survivor.

I am a survivor. I am a fighter! I can and will survive this~

I have been broken and alone,

I knew at one moment of breathless time that I was going to die

As I breathed the water and expelled my life~

I stayed there, frozen in time

while the temple was invaded

My soul broken and bleeding, in the hands of the beast.

And that, I survived.

I am here, battered but fighting.



I put myself together.

Only I can take myself apart.

I am solid

impenetrable.

And here I realize, In my lust for survival

For control over my own outcome and existence..

In my need to control the uncontrollable~

There is a difference between my surviving

and living.

Today, I choose to live instead of merely survive.


~cdp