It isn't disappointment that makes you strong
but recovery from it.
Expand, adapt the process of
of forgiving
from without
to within.
Inside,
find
where first signs
of stricken
produced
a why.
For instance,
why your father
forged
himself iron,
unforgiving,
when he
could have
stood
sword sentinel,
or why
your mother returned
her grief to you,
a petition
for silence
placed in your hands.
They couldn't save you.
Some years
you will forget
their birthdays,
a slippage
righted quickly.
It isn't this forgetting
that makes you
stronger
but the recovery of
these two
you knew
as joy and sorrow.
Memory is
your guardian triumphant:
you its
declaration of resistance
that read,
says
I survived.
but recovery from it.
Expand, adapt the process of
of forgiving
from without
to within.
Inside,
find
where first signs
of stricken
produced
a why.
For instance,
why your father
forged
himself iron,
unforgiving,
when he
could have
stood
sword sentinel,
or why
your mother returned
her grief to you,
a petition
for silence
placed in your hands.
They couldn't save you.
Some years
you will forget
their birthdays,
a slippage
righted quickly.
It isn't this forgetting
that makes you
stronger
but the recovery of
these two
you knew
as joy and sorrow.
Memory is
your guardian triumphant:
you its
declaration of resistance
that read,
says
I survived.
