After months of battling depression, life challenges, and inexplicable emotions, pressure gave way to beauty, healing, and inspiration. People are just like gems in how they form, and the process is heartbreakingly beautiful.
Diamonds aren’t the only gems created under pressure
If you ever saw her heart of stone and what it endured, you’d know
Know what it took to crystallize into its inner beauty
Break the rigid boundaries that kept holding her back
She knew the light was always there
But constant pressure is exhausting
It can make you devoid of hope and faith
Yet life keeps pounding away at her, determined to break her at every turn
Keeping her secluded in a cave in the depths of despair
Gasping for a breath of air or touch of the sun
Shattering dreams.
Breaking bonds.
Abusing the privilege of her gifts.
Asking her if she really thinks she is worth surviving the darkness
She is
Better yet – she can choose the color she morphs into in the end
A traditional deep blue or the rare padparadsha
Or perhaps like her yes, she will be a chameleon
Adapting her prism to her environment
But never dulling it again
Until she reaches that pinnacle of brilliance, she must
Wait.
Pray.
Heal.
The pressure’s not done with her yet.
Ancestral remnants shield modern day trauma
Burdening her with layers of rock that she’s chipping away
Moment by moment
Resilient.
Brave.
True.
Daily resistance of her captor
Fighting to fully release the gem of all she is:
The sapphire the world needs
The sapphire she’s meant to be