The Day My Life Began

There were hundreds of them. Crawling over me, spreading bacteria, germs, diseases, laying their filthy eggs under my pale skin. I scratch, I scrape, I claw at them, but they just multiply before my eyes. Countless dirty great cockroaches, scuttling over, under, through my clothes, repulsive fat maggots, obviously well fed, come oozing out from under my skin. The pain is overwhelming me. No matter how hard I try, to free myself of these foul …

…to check and see if I'm ok. She sits on the end of my mattress, looking at me with her gentle brown eyes, silently reassuring me that everything will be ok. I know I have reached the rock bottom and all there is for me now is up. Maybe I will learn about my past someday, but for now, I've got to start a new chapter of my life. But am I ready? I am.