Art by: Faith Magdalene Austin Art Title: Girl Inside Media: Watercolor and Acrylic on 98 lb paper Style: Raw, African Americana, Folk Art, Black Art
Category: PTSD
Don’t Forget Me
My physical wounds have healed faster than emotional wounds. There’s a real fear that time will pass, I’ll ‘look better’, and people will forget that
Three Birds
Fifteen days total but halfway through I began to lose myself to the constant and extreme pain. My medication cocktail sometimes caused me to see
Enduring the Days
The last few days have been torture. I hurt from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. The amputation site is
The Brave Face
I’m not brave. I’m not. I’m not rolling with the punches, I’m just getting punched. As I said, I’ve walked through the fire and I’m
I see “the surgeon” tomorrow, the one who amputated my toes. I wonder what kind of person it takes to look at a foot rotted
Wash Away
 . Ink on paper. She was drawn in ink then streams of water were added. I scanned her before I changed her. There’s more color
A person can’t live in this world and be innocent. It took me a long time to understand what innocence means. The day it was
My first and most intimate lessons in communication
This is a borrowed conversation. I listened to the first 3 min of a video where a person was talking about how well they treated
The Invisible Life
Masked, vulnerability, strength, endurance, determination, ambiguity, helpless, small, insignificant, rock hard, aggressive, assertive, grief, please see me, invisible, property, youth, old soul, wise soul, lava