[Contains possibly upsetting text.]
It is too late for me for I am broken beyond repair. There is still hope for the rest of you. Don't look at what I've done to convince yourself to do the same. I've been there. After Jenn hung herself that April in the quiet hours of the morning... I thought maybe she was right; it was no use fighting my inevitable fate -- consumed by an inner darkness that spreads like fire. But like I had to... Make your own decision, and make it for yourself and your own reasons.
Today I woke up feeling the weight of having a body that could never be neutral or 'normal' or something that was worth love and genuine attraction and not objectification. And a body that is broken by trauma, not only psychologically, but physically. I realize I am so conditioned to this that I cannot become a vessel for love.
My spirit does not know how to be moved by real love or real connection anymore, for I am not sure what that looks or feels like anymore. What I've always been told and learned was love turns out maybe was not entirely truth. I don't even know how to love properly. I'm sure I've suffered many heartbreaks due to this.
Moving through grey days and a hazy daze of daily dissociation leaves me a shell of someone who I think I used to know. I don't know that person anymore. I think they died a long time ago maybe. Or recently.
For now I am but a vessel of trauma. Every morning I wake up from night terrors that sleep paralysis determines I must repeat a few more times before I can wake up and remember where and what I am. I wake up exhausted, having just lived out all my trauma all over again.
And then I begin my day depending on how much money I have access to:
With or without my antidepressant, ptsd, and anxiety medicine; with or without soap and toothpaste and shampoo and conditioner; with or without a single meal for the rest of the day; with or without my hormones; with or without the physical ability to get up; with or without the psychological will to live.
I work from 6am to 1am most days, sometimes longer. Coping with my lack of control over my existence and body by being a workaholic to stride towards a fulfilling future. Or any future at all. Yet the cycle of poverty that a lot of mentally and physically disabled black transsexuals like myself can't break out of. Not that poverty was engineered to get out of anyway. The future looks dark, for I am much too tired and weary from scaling a mountain that gets 6 feet taller everytime I manage to climb 2.
I want to remind you all that this is my choice. No words will fix the 24 years of trauma this body and mind have experienced. Please do not call the hospital, for their treatment (and neglect) of me was and is far more traumatizing than death and far more punishing than failure. Please do not worry about me. I am bad with goodbyes, so this is the best I could know how to do. But I love all of you who have touched my heart and soul. That will never die.