A breakup

*Trigger Warning: Abuse*

Remember the day her boyfriend tried to drown her?

Her head was submerged underwater,

arms flailing, trying to find something to grasp

as he held her head down.

Her head was submerged underwater,

water flooding and clawing at her lungs,

as he held her head down.

She says it was like the water ripped her lungs bloody red and bruised.

Water flooding and clawing at her lungs,

she grabbed the edge of the bathtub.

As the water ripped her lungs bloody red and bruised,

she faltered, and they filled with cold water.

She grabbed the edge of the bathtub;

she says her skull was pounding (like when he cracked her head on the wall, but worse).

She faltered, and as her lungs filled with cold water,

she loosened her grip on the bathtub.

Her skull was pounding (like when he cracked her head on the wall, but worse);

tension fled from her body, and

she loosened her grip on the bathtub,

as a firework display shattered the blackness behind her eyes.

She says the tension fled from her body,

that her throat was raw, burning, and full of water,

and a firework display had shattered the blackness behind her eyes.

She says he relaxed his vice grip on her neck.

Her throat was raw, burning, and full of water, she says,

but she threw her head back, cracking his nose wide open,

and he relaxed his vice grip on her neck.

His nose a geyser spitting blood, she escaped.

She says she threw her head back, cracking his nose wide open,

she flailed her arms, trying to find something to grasp,

and with his nose a geyser spitting blood, she escaped.

Remember the day her boyfriend tried to drown her?

@waxfruit