You’re a stone

Last updated on August 3, 2020

you’re a stone

a river stone

smoothed by the current of life as it has flowed over you

the atoms of your experience solidified into safety

the weight of your wisdom is comfort

and you use that weight so generously

and you are so loved

but you carry all those moments inside of you

each moment that made you who you are forms the cells of the life you inhabit

the comfort you offer others is born from the pain you bear,

wrapped in the bandages of

hard-fought knowledge

and

indomitable hope

and

joyful, wide-hearted love

and you are a delight

but in your most vulnerable moments

when the bandages slip

and the vibrations of the stories you bear in your body

threaten to shake free and overwhelm you

in those moments,

you are glorious

you are so loved

without doing a thing

you are loved.