Ignited

A poem

I came into my own in a world foreign to my upbringing like Ophelia taking her first breath of hell away from the men who haunted her existence and excluded her from ‘heaven’ and the fire hurt to start but now — I am the fire — not only well and whole but powerful.

Julia Marsiglio is a Canadian author who writes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction exploring topics such as trauma, grief, mental health, marginalization, and neurodivergence.