Owning Resilience

I am here. 
Still here. 
Unwavering, unashamed, unblinking.
There is no reason to hide a wicked past 
That brought me to a wiser present.
I no longer hush where my strength came from.
A secret. A shame. A tragedy.
I own it, I learned it, I won it.
​I earned this spot I stand in.

Owning Resilience ©Hanna Bruer