Over time, the hurt doesn’t hurt. Only regret does.
adversity
Victorious
This smile isn’t a lack of pain. It’s a victory gesture of not letting pain defeat me.
Heights
If you’ve climbed the jutting trees to your lofty goal, you’ve far outdone the unscathed ladder climbers.
Pierced flight
thorns and stings
and those such things
just make stronger
our angel wings
P.S. Thank you to everyone who has written letting me know that Katya Elise Henry got a tattoo of this poem. Honestly, I didn’t know who she was and had to look it up. But that’s pretty cool, and a nice tattoo.
Hard to escape
Even happiness worries sometimes.
Threads
Life is woven of love and death, aches and smiles, persistence and letting go.
Prickly & proverbial
Experience is the thorn-lined road to success.
They’ll be back
you can shout it to every star
bare your soul up to the moon
cast your problems nightly afar —
but they always flood back by noon
Re-learning life
Focus on the simple, good things in life and breathe your way through the minor struggles.
Over & again
If we don’t continually get knocked off balance, how are we going to continue to be good at balancing ourselves?
Inner light
If you keep a sunny attitude, you will glow like a rainbow when life gets stormy.
Hard life, good life
Life can be hard, but if you’ve got somebody to love — Yay!
Stitches & seams
I need to get over the hard times of my past. They’ve left scars, but scars are just memories.