The prompt. I thought healing would feel like sunlight.......
I thought healing would feel like sunlight.... Instead, it feels like a sunburn. A slow burn of fire on tender skin, forcing me to lose sleep due to uncomfortable pain and thoughts that this is what life will be like for the unforeseeable future. I try to aid the pain and suffering with aloe, and at first, it's a relief I didn't know I needed. Then a quiet sting that reminds me that the damage runs deeper than the skin. After a while I have to shed the parts of myself I thought I couldn't live without, leaving me raw, unrecognizable, and unsure if I've healed at all. Until I realize the sting is gone. The tenderness has faded, and in its place is new skin, stronger and softer, ready to feel the sunlight again.
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