I let her save me. Let her fish me from the sea and drag me to the shore. Push water from my lungs. Breathe for me. Bring me back to life.

She was afraid of everything until she realised her own strength. And how much I needed her to live.

Rosaleen Lynch is an Irish community worker and writer in the East End of London who pursues stories conversational, literary, and performed. She has words published in Jellyfish Review, EllipsisZine, Fish, Mslexia, The London Reader, Litro, and other lovely places and can be found on Twitter at @quotes_52 and 52Quotes.blogspot.com.