Your mental illness is not baggage.
Having been abused or sexually
assaulted is not baggage.

Human beings are heavy, broken things.
If you are alive, you weigh
something and that’s okay.
It just means you’ve grown
since you were born.

We are all broken pieces,
trying to convince
other people
that we are whole.

We’re all just broken
in different ways.

You think ‘Okay, I get it, I’m prepared for the worst’, but you hold out that small hope, see, and that’s what fucks you up. That’s what kills you.