Take a breath in, hold it, breathe out slowly.

See all your trauma as another person but don't be scared of them.

Embrace them, you are one in the same.

As we sit here together I realize you are me as we fuse.

I feel more at peace with you as me and me as you.

I look down to my hands as we smile.

We come upon a ladder, it leads to a beach.

I was a child then, as we played by the beach, the sun set.

It was the most beautiful thing I had seen in years.

Each day was different. As I grew older, I enjoyed my life then. I felt as free as I had ever been.