Bones break, thoughts torment, and despair lurks around each corner.
Is it strength to be impervious to these things? To never show weakness? To heal after they occur? Or is strength simply moving forward, knowing you will experience them. Then again. And again. And again?
Sway is like a diamond to me. Beautiful and dazzling to the eye, yet the strongest person on the planet. Her thoughts torment her all day, every day. Despair often leaps out of nowhere and envelopes her, blocking all light. Her spirit can break and seem utterly devoured by rock. Then she will start to emerge again, her beauty slowly gaining momentum while pulling pieces back together. She’s not better or stronger than before, perhaps cut in a slightly different way but when she finds the light again, it’s absolutely breath-taking.