Hope
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A ghost-lit chapel keeps candles burning for someone who promised later and never came, until hope itself starts feeling haunted.
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Regret may line the path behind her, but it does not get to choose the direction of the next step.
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Summer leaves the way some loves do: warm on the skin, already fading before you realize it was the last time.
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Joy can be ordinary enough to serve for breakfast: small, messy, sweet, and gone before you realize you needed it.
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Becoming means naming who she is now without softening it, and deciding which old versions no longer get to come along.
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While adults count scars and hard days, a child finds music in an ordinary afternoon and dances anyway.
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Nightly joy arrives in the small things that survive the dark—quiet rooms, warm bodies, and moments no one else sees.
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An unfinished sentence becomes a declaration of everything survival, grief, motherhood, and becoming have made her.
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A refusal to inherit someone else’s rage, shrink into their story, or teach her children that love should ever sound like fear.
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A repeating cycle of hurt, apology, hope, and return finally breaks when she stops waiting for the next apology to save it.
Between Bruises & Blooms 