Alive enough to HURT; Not enough to matter

A’Verity Iris

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Just now

INJUSTICE

What is it really??

I.N.J.U.S.T.I.C.E.

I Survived.

Now

Justice

Unfortunately

Says

That’s

Inconvenient.

Case

Ended

There is a strange cruelty in how the world listens.

When someone dies, their absence becomes loud.

Their story is echoed in headlines, courtrooms, and whispered condolences.

Their loss is unquestioned. Their pain is validated simply because it ended in death.

But when someone survives —

when they wake up in a body forever changed —

their pain becomes negotiable.

Survival, somehow, makes suffering less believable.

The world assumes that living means healing.

That breathing means recovery.

That endurance equals acceptance.

But survival is NOT the absence of harm.

It is often the quiet continuation of it.

There is a particular loneliness that comes with living through something that should NEVER have happened — and realizing that the very fact you’re still here makes others doubt the depth of your wounds. You’re…