Choice, Dungarees

Choice

There is no choice in survival,
No choice to stay alive. 
Endurance is not conscious,
It is a retrospective pulling apart -
A grasp at understanding.

Do not call it wisdom.
It is not heroic.
Heroic is finding a truth and standing by it.
Bare faced audacity in the office, the playground, the kitchen.
Heroic is snarling at mediocrity and owning the judgement. 

By

Stephen newell



Dungarees

She sees no frailty, no fault in all your brokenness.
For as much as you have been bruised by this life,
So has she. 
Forged, regardless, steel of a different sort grows.
You know not what of, not yet!
Determined, the world will re- shape around it. 



By

Stephen newell
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