Her Strength Is Made Up Of Her Pain — That’s Now Been Repaired
Increasing her inner strength
She is just a figment of your imagination now
As she is no longer the person you once knew,
She shattered, pieces blown in every direction
Broken, but never beyond repair, toughen anew.
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Each crack is diligently refined and resolved
The fine detail in the repairers work, astounding,
At times the faults and small cracks are invisible
Whereby others deeply scar, but whose counting?
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Time, love and patience is a recipe of success
It will fill those cracks, in an unbelievable time,
Each repair making her stronger, more resilient
She will be better, smarter, tougher, in her prime.
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She may disappear for awhile, so she can recoup
A time out as such, a decision to put herself first,
Self love, whilst she processes the agony and pain
Gentleness an she allows the damage to reverse.
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She will be unrecognisable to those old demons
Never to be broken in the same manner again,
Never be ashamed of being broken as strength
Is nothing more than the repairing of her pain.
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Colleen Millsteed
My first love is poetry — it’s like a desperate need to write, to free up space in my mind, to escape the constant noise in my head. Most of the time the poems write themselves — I’m just the conduit holding the metaphorical pen.
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Beautiful and powerful. Well done.
A very beautiful and relatable poem!