I know it hurts.

You are back in your shell of protection.

Sequestered away until you know you feel better.

That better day could be tomorrow or in the distant future.

You will hold on until you do not have to anymore.

It is not all bad though.

***

Not everyone handles pain well.

Lashing out like a caged animal.

Spirit not yet tempered by experience of loss.

You are different from that and know better.

The bad habit long since beaten from your heart.

It learned to beat to a different less hot pace.

***

You have grace now.

Not the type rooted in physical beauty like a crimson scarf.

The kind that dances without causing harm.

Blunted against yourself until better.

A hated situation turned into a coveted trait.

Pain transformed by you into something not all bad.

***

Be proud of that miracle if nothing else.