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“Steadfast” by Trevor Witt (Inspired in part by “Resilient Girl” by Briana Muñoz)

Steadfast
Holding ground
Despite it shaking
Under your feet
Shifting sands
Yet you stand still
Still, you stand
No need to
Move
No need to
Explain yourself
To the Earth
Or to any of its creatures
You have as much a right to be
As the oceans and the stars
And the dirt beneath your feet
We are trees
Temporary arrangements of leaves, trunks, and roots,
Yet always connected
To the soil and the sky.

“Bathe in the Sun” by Trevor Witt

The sunlight is reassuring
As the birds chirp pleasantly
And I waddle out of the pond of misery
Self-judgment and criticism
Cling to and cover me like mud
Self-pity sticks to me like leeches
But I will tear off those insecurities one by one
For I will now bathe in the sun.

“To Be Fully Human” by Trevor Witt (dedicated to my Dad)

To be fully human
Is to feel the clouds at your feet
When you and your love meet
And to sink into dark depressions
When internalizing rejections
To feel physical pain
When experiencing empathy
To delight in tangible, worldly pleasures
While in awe of the moon and the stars
To become that which one was not
To grow from a scared child to a confident adult
And to learn to live with fears again as age catches us,
To dare to dream, to pursue the impossible,
To take a leap of faith with no net below,
To love
Terrified, brave,
Exhausted and shackled,
Or free and triumphant,
To be gracious,
To be hurt,
To be wounded,
And to learn to heal,
To love
In fits of rage, yelling, and tantrums,
In the calm, beside a lake, with placid water,
In the confusion, speechless, unable to convey feelings or thoughts,
In the simple understanding that we are One,
To love.