Different Growth.

The hacking was brutal

By darkness of night, they acted alone

To fell

To cut

To wound

Cutting deep

Cutting through

Exposing the raw, pure flesh of the core

A spectacle

A ridicule

A supposed triumph

At your expense

And yet

You Stood

You Stayed

You knew

What was true

and that was deeper

Than one cut or bruise could muster

Even if it felt like all of your life had been destroyed

It

Wasnt

It

Just felt that way

There’s time for loss

Time to reorientate

Time to regroup

Time to be held

Protected at such a raw tender time

Nurtured once again, or for the first time

Those roots stood firm

Invisible strength in the deep

Like a stump that stood

A Tree cut

Roots

Lived

in the deep

Truth that you always knew, held firm

Slowly

Gently

Those roots give energy, and power to grow again

New

Never the same old growth from the bruise

Its not meant to be

Instead

Be

New.

No

Going Back

No being that person again

Plant those roots of love, of peace and truth

Its time to grow a new you again

Its time.