
If you ask me about
being strong,
or resilient,
or brave,
I’ll tell you about unfolding edges
and rebuilding
from a million little pieces
despite the wreck that remains;
and digging the dirt to bedrock
to fracture and shatter,
splinter and break.
I’ll tell you about going downward
and inward, and meeting with sorrow
and speaking to pain;
and when hell spills from your bones,
that you’ll fetch seeds from the
dried-up darkness and grow gardens
from graves.