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Resilience
There is a resilience
that rises from deep within your flesh. I’ve heard you say “resiliency” like it didn’t mean the world, like it wasn’t conceived in your deepest memories and fears and foundations and bone marrow. Like it didn’t travel from your belly, picking up speed and strength; gaining confidence and the fertile manifesto of anger; getting louder as it raced past your organs; gathering momentum as it whistled by your lungs; gaining fervor as it rushed up your throat and burst into flames, but came out of your mouth without a curl of smoke; as if there was no blazing fire marking the line between the past – between every time he pounded your flesh and marrow with his fists; between every time your mother ducked to flee his rage – and the future, and the oxygen you stir into every child with embers in their belly. And you will teach them that resilience is everything. No matter how you say it.
#Unreal #DomesticViolence #Resilience #FendOffTheFire
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