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Lisa Pospisil May 2019
P is for PRAYING for a safe return home, PUTTING on a brave face everyday, and PROTECTING yourself at all costs...

T is for TRUSTING that someone will be there to help you, TALKING to someone about your feelings, and TELLING your story to try to help others...

S is for SAYING that you need help, SEEING your life change right in front of your eyes, and SLOWLY coming to grips with seing your friends die all around you...

D is for DOING what you have to do everyday, DREAMING that oneday your fears will go away, and DYING to fix yourself but knowing that you can't...

THAT IS PTSD!!!

By Lisa J Little
Lisa Pospisil May 2019
Different - tormentor of my dreams...
They are perfumed from unseen streams...

Deep into that darkness waiting...
What could there be more purely debilitating???

Deep into the darkness stranding...
All my soul within me misunderstanding...

That moment my soul grew crying...
I'm still trying and never dying...

— The End —