about the rcc

OUR MISSION

The Rape Crisis Center of Horry and Georgetown Counties is a private, non-profit organization providing services that lay the foundation for the healing process to all survivors of rape and sexual assault- women, children, men, their families and friends. We work to promote public awareness of the realities of sexual victimization and strive toward its elimination through outreach and community education.

a poem

This poem is by Rashani, a poet who lives as a solitary in a remote hermitage.

THERE IS A BROKENNESS

There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken, a shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable.

There is a sorrow beyond all grief which leads to joy and a fragility out of whose depths emerges strength.

There is a hollow space too vast for words through which we pass with each loss, out of whose darkness we are sanctioned into being.

There is a cry deeper than all sound whose serrated edges cut the heart as we break open to the place inside which is unbreakable and whole, while learning to sing.