Almost. In spite of it all 💘

Laugh, in spite of...

Care...regardless of

Live...forgetting

Dance ...through sorrow, pain & tears

Bloom past feelings of exclusion, invisibility

Believe fiercely! You matter...in the face of it all

You are a preposition...'notwithstanding', and 'even though'.

Contrast with...the expected...be the main clause

Be the unexpected....

BECOME...the unexpected!!!

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In spite of it all,

Keep the heart's lantern lit.

A trembling flame...maybe

but steady enough

to identify the darkness

without becoming it.

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In spite of it all,

rise.

Maybe not with the clean lift of innocence,

but with the gravity-earned grace

of someone who has walked through

every kind of weather

and still knows how to stand.

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In spite of it all,

your voice refuses to thin...

But gathers itself like rain,

like a truth that has waited

too long to be spoken.

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In spite of it all,

you keep choosing the world

its cracked edges,

its stubborn beauty,

its impossible, aching hope.

And maybe that is the miracle:

not that you survived,

but that you stayed openminded.

That you let the wound teach you

without letting it define you.

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In spite of it all,

you remain ...almost untouched,

almost unbroken.

Not purely innocent,

but incandescent.