We can do hard things.
We can push through heartbreak,
The tears of feeling like we're not wanted,
Like we're not good enough,
We can splash in them.
We can laugh and cry in the same breath
We can dance in the rain
Of tomorrow's dreams,
We can punch waves and punch walls and push through
Through how we were defined by the people before us
We can become us
Come into ourselves
With each other as our backup.
We can hide in the shadows
And wade in the shallows
And glitter like the sun
Like stars
Like fire
Because we can
We can do it all
We are all so beautiful
And we can be anything we want in this shiny broken world
The destruction of yesterday rebuilding tomorrow
We can be us,
Unapologetically,
We know that there is no "should"
Even if sometimes we think there is
We feel
We love
We make mistakes
We are human
We are brilliant
And anyone who wouldn't want us
Is not worth the effort
Even if our hearts
Think they know better
Even if
Crush turns to obsession
Past the shattering rejection of what once was
We can be us
We can move forward
Girls
We can do hard things.
Comments
This is incredible! You did SUCH a brilliant job melding poetry and power, showing that they're really just the same thing. Beautiful work! I'm going to go read it again
Thank you!! That was my goal :)
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