Cradling the shell of my once-was to make room for my will-become, because healing is an art form that has destroyed me more than once and this time, I know better than to let my what ifs control my what is'.
It takes grit, gut, and glory to tell your story.
So, here is to the walls I built and the survivor's guilt I carry around like a newborn being sworn into a new world.
One with patience for my tender, for my soul to mend her weary head, for the dead to rest in peace (even when I wake in fits), for my good to matter more than the effort it takes to love me in return being too much, for finally becoming just enough.
Here is to no longer being absent to the parts that bled in vain and here is to the pain it took to become what I have wanted to to be able to look in the mirror without the terror of seeing the being I no longer am.














