In this chapter, I’m brave
Toe to toe with my greatest fear
I don’t win every battle
But I won’t fail.
In this chapter, I’m awake
Thawed from the ice
Turned inside out
Not a beginning, a reclaiming.
In this chapter, I take it all back
The life I said I didn’t deserve
Because in this chapter,
I suffocate the me I created for protection.
The Frankenstein of my own making
The Freddy of my own nightmares
A vicious chameleon
‘Undeserving’
‘Too broken to be happy’
‘Not worth saving’
The narrative dies with her
Because in this chapter,
I remember I’m the author.