Resilience
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There is always a roomwith no windows, a metal table,two chairs,a box of tissuessomeone keeps replacingbecause griefnever runs out. This is wherethe worst thingthat ever happened to youbecomes evidence. Where your shaking handsare asked for details. Where strangerswrite downthe color of the walls,the hour,the smell,the sound you madewhen you realizedno one was coming. And somehowyou…
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Grief does not always leave; sometimes it grows roots beneath the ribs until healing means learning how to bloom around it.
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The compass has not changed, but the road home has been bent, leaving a mother to wait while every room still points toward her boys.
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Healing did not make her untouched; it taught roots to grow through wreckage and flowers to feed on what once tried to bury her.
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After years of searching for home in other people’s arms, she realizes the place she kept rebuilding was herself.
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She knows darkness well enough to walk it with her eyes closed, which may be exactly why she is finally learning how to leave.
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Choosing joy does not erase old pain; it simply refuses to let every bruise, promise, and goodbye own the rest of the story.
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The walls remember every version of her—the tears, the coffee, the restless nights, and the woman who kept figuring out what came next.
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The moon could not return what was lost, but beneath it she learned to stop asking the sky to rebuild a life only she could keep living.
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The past still lives in courtrooms, hospitals, and old names, but each morning the garden keeps proving life can grow beside memory.
Between Bruises & Blooms 