Not Broken, Just Bent
Not broken, just bent, this time I say,
when you charged me as broken as we sit face to face.
You persisted to insist I was broken by
what had passed between the fall and the spring
of two years past, when I did not know if I could last
in this life created that now crumbled down.
Instead I persisted, and made a vow
to build new life where my seedlings and I
could grow with the values and trust I defined
on my own despite your insistence that I
am doing it wrong and should listen to
you and to them and society at large.
I finally understand that I am in charge
of my choices and actions and response to the pain
that took me to my knees, but I stood up again
and I mended the bend in the branches of our family tree.
Even though I know you still don’t respect me,
or my choices and actions and response to the pain,
I tell you now that I would do it again
because of the growth that I gained when I opened my soul
to the possible and impossible and gave up control
of the outcome, for better or worse,
and I learned how to live in my own universe,
where I continue to grow and continue to mend
the bend in the branch with time well-spent
in the present and in love and in grace.
I say not broken, just bent, as we sit face to face.
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I'm proud of my crooked bent-ness. It makes me far more empathetic. And I think my husband's bentness too helped us find more curves and corners to snuggle into softly and help each other through the darkest times, and the bentness softened somehow, and just was, rather than a thing to fight or force back into some kind of illusionary shape of what was 'before'. xx
A beautiful reflection. xx
...rather than a thing to fight or force back into some kind of illusionary shape of what was 'before.'
The way you accept each other's bentness as simply part of one another is a gift. We are all bent, but so often we are expected to fix ourselves, or worse, try to fix another person. What a beautifully peaceful way you have found to live together. I admire this 🌱
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