Happiful – August 2019

August 2019 • happiful.com • 29

More than

anything, I want

people going

through emotional

distress to be seen,

heard, and cared

for, with respect

and compassion

Follow Rosie on @talkingaboutbpd or
visit her blog talkingaboutbpd.co.uk

Maxine Ali is a health and science
writer, and linguist specialising in
body talk and body image. Follow
Maxine @maxineali or visit her
website maxineali.com

Kimberley Wilson is a dialectical
behaviour therapy-trained chartered
psychologist. Find out more at
monumentalhealth.co.uk

For Rosie, poetry is empowering

her to reclaim her BPD

NO APOLOGY

She should not apologise

for the trauma

that formed her.

Or for the fire that warmed her,

burned her, turned her to ashes

and reignited her in the same breath.

Or for the million lives

and billion deaths

she fledged and shed like feathers.

Or to the divers whose

knees bled on stones.

It’s not her loss to console.

Maybe she is not one woman

but many women.

Maybe the way to understand her

is through her anger.

Her shipwrecked depths

don’t require your anchor.

By Rosie Cappuccino