Nicole Johnson

She remembered that day like it were yesterday.
His hands on her body and she couldn’t speak.
The way he half-caressed her, kneading, stalking.
Her mind was fuzzy and vision blurry.
It replayed over in her mind so clearly.
She couldn’t move.
Her body paralyzed.
She couldn’t breathe.
The tears piled as his body pressed inward.
There was no escaping this, so she lay there and took it.
Gazing into the distance, wanting desperately to be anywhere else but there.
The swift finish had come and passed and she was alone again.
Her thoughts racing, trying to understand.
No one was there to save her.
No one was there to hold her.
No one was there to prevent her from drowning in her sorrows.
She held on to that burden all on her own.