WU

5 months ago your life changed. One minute you forced yourself to learn how to be okay with the punishments, the hitting, the brutality. And the next you learned that you should’ve said something sooner. You should’ve begged for helped even though you knew it wouldn’t come. Because now your mother was dead, your father was in jail. And you’ve been in this orphanage for 5 months in counting. 5 months of silence 5 months of clutching your shirt, your pants, your stuffed animal as a vice. 5 months of wondering if he would come back for you 5 months of wondering if you looked him. If people saw the murderer in you. 5 months of wondering if anyone would save you And all of the wondering, the entire 5 months, evaporated in a second when they called you.