Before you can bloom you need somewhere soft to land. Somewhere safe to just be, with nothing asked of you.
HourLife's reading of the premise: rest and safety come before growth.
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Sara Sheehan
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Healing is messy and chaotic and honest. It is not a tidy arc and it was never going to look like one.
HourLife's reading: recovery rarely follows a tidy arc, and the polished version leaves most of it out.
Blooming is something people can see. Healing is quiet, and it happens in the dark hours nobody witnesses.
HourLife's reading: growth is visible and gets the credit; the quiet work does not.
The in-between is not a waiting room. Breaking and rebuilding are the same stretch of road, walked twice.
HourLife's reading: the middle is a stretch of road, not a pause before real life resumes.
Some of what you did to survive was not a mistake. It was the only door that was open at the time.
HourLife's reading: self-forgiveness as an accurate account of the past rather than a favour to yourself.
You are allowed to rest without earning it. Rest is not the reward at the end of the healing.
HourLife's reading: rest is not something to be earned at the end of healing.
Free verse, not instruction. It sits with you rather than telling you what to do next.
HourLife's note: this is poetry, not a manual, so read it as company rather than instruction.
Writing the hard parts down honestly, where other people can read them, is a way of keeping company.
HourLife's note: Sheehan writes as Moonsoulchild; the honesty of the voice is much of what poetry like this offers.
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