did you pull the pieces of collapsed granite from my chest leaving me free to breathe or did your smile just evaporate the insecurities

this feeling of being a new person that is not new at all confounds me

i wonder if this is how normal people feel all the time

yet they complain about the most trivial of minor inconveniences as if the world teeters on the brink of destruction without thought

those that have never truly suffered can never grasp the full extent of trauma

in your eyes i am reborn

with an overflowing well of appreciation for this new reality where the things of before no longer hold weight in the bliss of now