Pierced

Trauma

Is something you don’t want

Entering you

Blindsiding you

Taking you down

Holding you

Under a wall of water

Or

Making you disappear

Behind a plane of glass

Made opaque

Reality is obscured

On the other side of trauma

The terror you feel

Can be seen by no one

So they question

How real it is

Meanwhile

You cannot see anything

That happened after

Because trauma has completely

Eclipsed your vision

Casting dark shadows on everything

Now

It is impossible for you

To make known a terrible truth

That is piercing you

With a pain

They could never fathom

And so you bleed

From invisible shards

Lodged deep inside

Until some angel appears

Who understands

And helps you to believe

This trauma and its painful aftermath

Truly is real

Not just a symptom

Of a wild imagination

Or a mistaken reality