LITERARY| graceful violence

graceful violence

Calista

life is a shape shifter

today an ally, tomorrow a villain

if you're safe, it can take you somewhere safer

yet blink once– you're trembling in fear of the uncertain

i can't remember what it's like not fearing the unknown

fearing i'd fail, or even start, fearing i'm missing any part

doubting if from the pits i've ever grown

more horribly, fearing that fear has dominated my heart

what's left in my mind was a little bravery

which took me time to embrace

i listened to what it said, fairly carefully

'kill the fears, do it with grace.'

i felt a fighter inside me rise;

grace in my heart, i saw violence in my own eyes