Tag: Inner strength
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Resilience

They say that pain leaves fingerprints,that trauma marks the soul,that broken roots and shattered homesextract a heavy toll. By all accounts, I should have fallen,lost somewhere along the way,a ghost beneath a bridge at night,sleeping through the day. The odds were stacked against melong before I understood.I learned that life could wound a childbefore it…
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When Love Made Her Brave

She folded herself into corners,quiet as dust drifting through sunbeams. The world barely noticed she existed,and her voice was never loud enoughto rise above the scattered chatterof crowded rooms. She believed her presence left little morethan a footprint in wet sand,destined to be erasedby the tide’s inevitable return. Her dreams traveled as whispers,carried on summer…