Daybreak

LaRenda, thank you for sharing this powerful, beautifully written piece of poetry with the community on SoulSpeakOut. Your use of powerful words and imagery bring your experience to life and will allow other survivors to identify with what you’ve experienced. You write “The questions flood my mind/ “why me”/“why now”/the answers swirl like toxic covered candy/never coming into focus/“you’re a bad girl”/“you’ll die tonight”. This question of “why me” is one that many survivors struggle with, but that does not make it any less real or difficult for you to have to struggle with. Just remember that nothing you experienced was your fault- you did not ask to be violated and you did not deserve it. Thank you for your strength.