Gentle Strength
In my opinion, strength comes in various colors and shades. Strength can be quiet and delicate or roaring and raging. Just depends on the context, the subtext and on the person. Strength isn’t a lack of emotion. I think the strongest people have the most depth, feel the most, are the most sensitive. It’s their self control and mastery of their emotions and their willingness to show compassion and kindness or to keep silent and un-reactive that speaks volumes of their strength.
Rising From Ash
It's in the solitude that I have found my resolve. That I have faced my fears. That I have made decisions about what I will and will not tolerate. I have suffered many dark nights of the soul. I have “died” so many times. I have broken all my bones and reset them. I have burned to ash and I have risen. Time and again, and I will continue to do so over and over. Because each time I face the new demons that took the place of the ones I have slayed, each time I break my bones, each time I melt away, I burn myself to ash – I am tempered and I am re-born. Each version of me better than the one before; the same and somehow changed forever.