Invincible

They call you unbeatable. They do not see the hairline cracks in your ribs from every kindness you absorbed like shrapnel. They do not count the nights you bled silence just to keep the morning from collapsing.

What if strength is the widow who still sets two plates at dinner? What if power is the child who, after the fall, runs toward the thing that hurt them—not to fight, but to understand? Invincible

So no. You are not invincible. You are something rarer: breakable, and brave enough to keep breaking open. They call you unbeatable

You are not a fortress. You are a river carving canyons, whispering to the very rock that tries to hold you still: I will go through, or I will go around. But I will go. What if strength is the widow who still

But I have seen the oak after the storm: not standing because it refused to bend, but rooted because it learned to sway.