exhale.

A woman

raped

you.

A woman raped me too.

I can’t say this to you right now, but my whole body yearns to pain this particular pain with you.

Because I’ve never known another woman who has been raped by a woman.

“what happened?” and you responded, “rape” and I could feel my breath connect with your’s and

if this conversation had been in person I would have said, “me too” and

we both would have exhaled the same breath and

and i would have cried for you. and i would have cried for me.

my skin would have soaked in your voice. my lungs would have ached with my breath.

and in the exhale we would have known.