Steel Magnolias (Make or Break)

"Yes, there is a place where your humongous past pain, becomes a platform and production plantation for your thriving future."

Chioma Onwudiwe

We often hear the saying; 'what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger'. Apparently, if you survived what was supposed to wipe you out. Just like strength training, the resistance gives you an added capability and leverage. We cannot stop pain and problems, in a fallen world. However, we can make it work for us. For all the times, that I could have built a castle with my wreckage of pain. I mounted the rubble and ruin instead. Victoriously placing a flag, on top of it. I bet you can guess, what that flag read. No not 'surrendered', guess again.... And while you are it, enjoy my new English Sonnet 'Em-Bettered'.

Em-Bettered An English Sonnet by Chioma Onwudiwe/2017

How horrid it felt, what tore cruel and mean

Like an avalanche, it did sweep away

All strength was gone and hope slowly wiped clean

So back on the wheel was this broken clay

The assault of unrelenting pangs

While tossed from one fire to another

Till a despairing cry and question hangs

Need I continue? And must I bother?

This rule of life, whether courted or not

Can also make what it intends to break

Some emerged better and some bitter got

Most lives unravel and a few just quake

It is possible that pain can refine

Producing an incontestable shine