The Polished Grace of a Beaten Ghost
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The Polished Grace of a Beaten Ghost
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If my branches touch the sky
If my flowers see the sun
It's only because my dirty roots
crawl deep through the mud
If my confidence shines during the triumphs
It's only because it's been polished by defeats
If I slide with slippery grace
through the roughness of today
It's only thanks to the friction of yesterday
If like water through air
If like rock through water
I gracefully float
through the most solid obstacles
with the grace of a ghost
Myself more solid than solid
Myself more dense than dense
Myself more real than real
Then it is from the pressure
The resistance
The heat
The fire
That has held me back
Molded me
Burned me
And set me truly free
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"Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco." Virgil, The Aeneid
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This is a beautiful piece, when someone can touch your heart soul with words this magnificent explaining where you have been and what you'll be. That in itself explains it all.
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