Softness is not weakness.
It takes courage to stay delicate
in a world this cruel.
"" Beau Taplin
She sighs ever so quietly, hands resting gently on the dark wooden dining table, body slumped forward in her chair, there's a tiredness in those light doe eyes a numbness that has taken over her entire existence. It's an energy wrapped around her like a tight blanket and she struggles to breathe. She's suffocating. And yet she stays.
She tries to find solace in the few gentle faces of members in this household, and yet she doesn't belong does she? This isn't her home, this isn't her family, and they're just mere strangers that feel pity and sympathy for this delicate young girl. She laughs aloud at that, the sound light yet tarnished in a sadness that it has no real depth. It's an echo amongst empty walls. Hollow. She's breaking.
How did she end up here? How has this become her life? Why him? Her mind swirls in never-ending circles, raging questions. A quiet storm. She can feel the beginnings of a headache, a dull ache on the right side, she lays her head on her hands and closes her eyes. But she knows, sleep won't come, it never does.
Despite the darkness, at the back of her mind she knows with absolute sureness, that despite the cracks, she won't break, despite the numbness, she'll still feel, and despite the loss, she'll still love. This is her. The world can break her, he can try to tear her apart, slowly but surely, strip her of everything, her family, her husband, her home, her future. But she'll still stand, as tall as she can, as strong as she can. Her softness is her strength, her delicacy is her armour and her words are the truth. She'll fight.
She is the silence amongst a raging storm, she is that moment of peace, of tranquillity amongst the fire. When everything is fading, she is strength.
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