By Button Poetry
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Transcript provided by YouTube:
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What I’ve learned about trauma
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It isn’t as easy as being something that happened to you
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a package you opened once
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You will wake up in a new zip code, have to wander your way home
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Carry a few of the things you love to this new place you live in now
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So you buy throw pillows you put up twinkle lights and have a big celebration
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Point at the open windows and tell everyone who has ever seen you crying look
00:36
Look how I have not caged myself
00:39
Look what I have built out of two paint buckets and the blessing of my still here body
00:45
But trauma leans into the bark art
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Spills a drink on the new rug breaks off the door handle on his way out trauma
00:54
Sends you letters without warning for the rest of your life. Just so you remember
00:59
Trauma knows exactly where you live
01:02
Who did you think
01:04
built the house?
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