Strength
is not how much you can endure before you break
Strength
is how much you can endure after you have been broken
Strength
is arriving when you want to die
the physical and emotional pain is so bad
but love keeps me here
rage keeps me here
Strength
is forgiving when people, who know better, do harm to me
I forgive for me
not you
Strength
is living in isolation because society has shut me out
what are you going to do about it?
it is not a safe world
Strength
is educating you when your mind is closed
I exist if your mind remains closed
Strength
is arriving as a caregiver to my husband and
holding him while he died
he did not survive leukemia and his bone marrow transplant
thirty-three years and now more alone
Strength
is being oneselves own caregiver
as a disabled, sick person
or having to rely on strangers
because no one arrives
Strength
is having a ministry
when this is not my world
I honor my sacred contract
Strength
is arriving to give spiritual care to your broken heart
it is not my personal problem
you hurt too
only wounded soldiers understand
Strength
is my being an ACTIVIST
to change this cruel world!
even if I might not see the changes
I arrived today,
alive,
anyways
By Anunnaki Marquez
March 18th, 2023
~.V.~
Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez 