I’ve been feeling numb, in my skin. I don’t know how to explain it really, it’s like the person that I was before I was assaulted just shrivelled away, detaching itself from the periphery and leaving a wasteland as he retreated deeper and deeper into my core. I don’t know what I can do, or say, to bring him back out again, to fill out the frame of my being once more. I’ve just been feeling a lot of confusion. And anger, and irritation. I’ve always been the kind of person to put up walls around myself, but now the walls have grown spikes, and they poke and pierce my own flesh even as they
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