I am listening to the men banging on my doors and walls

I am still here because my apartment is being readied for me

I thought it couldn’t get worse. It did and I lived, but part of me was gone. But I am more capable now than I have ever been.

I have always thought I couldn’t do hard things, look at me now

This moment of proof that I can endure proved to me my own grit and determination to live for some reason