9/11/2025

“You have remind kind and strong and resilient

Through things that could have made anyone cold and weak

But that’s just the kind of person you are

You show extremely graceful strength

For someone who has every reason to be unrefined about all of it

But I don’t know if you have it in you to be any other way

You’ve thought about it

You’ve thought about knocking everything off the table in front of you until it shatters on the ground

You’ve thought about screaming in the isles in the store like you’ve lost all your courtesy to people who didn’t give any of it back to you when you lent it to them

You’ve thought about letting out all that pent up anger out

With the hopes that you can leave it there and never let it back in

But you know it always comes back

You know a lot more than you let on

Because you’re the kind of person that rather sit down with their demons until it’s sorted

Than to let them keep knocking for the rest of your life

You’re the kind of the person who knows anyone you ever meet will be greeted by them at the door

Unless you’ve already sent them packing

You’ve remain you

Instead of becoming a product of what you’ve been through

You’ve remained so many wonderful things

Even through some of the worst things

Because that’s who you are at your core”

-JB