Orlando survivor: 'The guilt of feeling grateful to be alive is heavy'

One of the victims of the shooting at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub wrote a poem as she lay in a hospital bed on Monday night, writes Claire Anderson.

Orlando survivor: 'The guilt of feeling grateful to be alive is heavy'

The 20-year-old, Patience Carter, said that ’writing is part of my healing process.’

Carter lost her friend, 18-year-old Akyra Murray, in the massacre.

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