✨ [i always thought]

now i see...

I always thought
softness was weakness
that by letting my
body relax
or gentleness live
on my fingertips
that I was somehow
letting go
somehow sacrificing
my bravery

now I see, to be soft
is majestically courageous

—Juniper Klatt

“i always thought” is taken from I was raised in a house of water. Copyright © 2019 by Juniper Klatt. Used by permission of Fernwood Press. All rights reserved. www.fernwoodpress.com. Photo by Dustin Humes, via Unsplash.