Those who have conquered
    the most acute pain
    are immune to every adversity:
    life's most vital lesson they have learnt

I choose resilience
over strength:
it holds me up better
and I'm made always consistent

Where there's love
there's spiritual growth

Life is either
this or that:
those who are wise
choose what makes them glad

I am a calico dream,
slipped in a
teethless gown,
holding a warm
candle to light
your way;

I am a lightfoundling
shimmering in
the rays
of a new unmaking;

I am an ulcered
goodness;

I am
incorporated into
the bodies
of monsters