a poem i wrote <3

by Rachel Lynch

Life has spent the year breaking me down, stripping me of what I hold most dear because it was holding me down.

It said, “I’m going to take this thing from you in a way that you’ll never look at it the same again.”

I tried twice to build a beautiful home, and twice the walls eroded around me.

I tried once to build a beautiful love, but it imploded within me.

And still, life asked me to go on.

Life asked me to be brave once more.

To trust it again.

It offered me tools to keep calm, and meditations to remain brave under any circumstance.

I packed my bag with these, and took off into the night.

I endeavored to try again,

to trust life once more,

and she said “bloom.”