LAKYNDRA W

The Hope Within Us

I remember my 18th birthday. It was a day most would be excited about, after all becoming a legal adult would open doors that were once closed to me as a child. However, for me this was a day that was anything but exciting. I was 18, depressed, been abused my entire life and always felt alone. So at a time when I should’ve been excited, I was scared and lost because I had been made to feel my entire life that I was nothing and I didn’t have a voice.