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Be Strong

Be strong
Be courageous
Paint on your brave face
Breathe in peace
Breathe out anxiety
Let the voice of truth
Drown out the doubt
Find your strength
From deep within
You are stronger
Than you think,
You say she’s
Stronger
Than the weight
Of the anchor
That presses
So firmly
Its grip so heavy.

This strength she carries
Isn’t a strength
She possesses
Within herself
It isn’t something
She strives for
She doesn’t want to be brave
She doesn’t have it in her
To be strong
She feels it, knows it in her bones
Strength, she realizes
Doesn’t come from herself
Being strong doesn’t mean
Casting aside fear
Or putting a bandage on her pain.

Strength, she realizes
Comes from surrender
To the unknown
To the truth
Getting up
Taking one step at a time
Letting herself be
Just as she is
Accepting herself
All of her feelings
All of her scars
She embraces the truth
That she is worthy
She is covered
She is strong
She is brave
Not because of anything she does
But because of who she is:
She shows up
Looks to the sun
Lets it radiate her beauty
Bathe her with glory
Magnify her light.

Light.

Letting go
Is like coming home
To an unfamiliar place
Where I feel unwelcome
And the dust doesn’t settle
The clanging outside
Is deafening inside
Amplifying the noise
Muffling the truth
It just keeps getting louder
It’s so loud I can’t stand it
Yet I turn up the volume
And I can’t stop listening
Because the silence is
Even louder
It exposes the fears
The words I carry
The loneliness I hide
The deep wounds inside
Needing validation
Illumination
Consecration
Less condemnation
Freedom from guilt
Reparation
Because all that keeps me
From giving into the
Darkness
Is believing in
And walking into
The light.