Urban Image Magazine November 2013 Issue November 2013 | Seite 39

2.5 INCHES EQUALS 912.5 DAYS By: Angela Williams What if I said two and a half inches of hair is equivalent to nine hundred twelve and a half days? What if I said my eyes are opened and I see you....the real you? What if I said I know why you took such pleasure in hitting me with your verbal assaults? What if I said I know why you tried to break me? What if I said I know you are a scared and scarred little boy trapped in the body of a grown man? What if I said two and a half inches of hair is equivalent to nine hundred twelve and a half days? What if I said that cutting off two and half inches of hair freed me from the debilitating hold you had over me? What if I said with each snip the scissors made was like the key turning 39