my little dirty hands reach for yours
giving up only sounds easy
It is not enough to have pulled myself out of the pit of depression; I have to keep myself from slipping back in, as well.
To heal you must learn to trust yourself.
“I’m not brave,” she says, “I’m scared.”
“You cannot be brave without being scared. Brave is when you’re scared, and you go anyway.”
Do you ever watch yourself dispassionately, no more interested in stopping the destruction than you are in stopping the coyote chase the…