she is both blissful and unbearable.
she spreads her prettiest
and ugliest sides like cards within a deck:
and plays them simultaneously.

she walks with a heavy
and stubborn independence,
crowned by a perpetual quest for reassurance that when life’s sweetest lemons are handed to her,
she won’t have to taste them alone.

she questions everything.
it does not mean she won’t believe.
she puts herself on a pedestal
she usually doesn’t deserve
and from which she falls often.

she meets any threat to her values,
no matter how twisted and illogical they are, with due resistance.
she admits she is often still wrong.

but offer her the challenge of acceptance—lay your weapons down next to hers—
and she will live to show you,
over and over,
better than you ever saw coming.