You May Find Your Strength While Looking Up

i am interested in the kind of people who have walked a few miles on rugged ground. who have felt the earth tremble beneath their feet and somehow kept on going. i am interested in the kind of people who have lines around their mouths and lines around their eyes and a thousand years of wisdom, gleaned from hardship and love and loss and lacking. i am interested in the kind of people who have had to fight for something. who did not feel beautiful once but came to understand that radiance is knit from the strands of the soul within. i am interested in the kind of people who have had to hurt and hope and heal. who learned the hard way. who chose resilience. who never knew the kind of strength that comes along when you have nowhere else to look but - up.

~ 'up' by Ullie Kaye Poetry

~ Art 'Hope' by Karen Wilcox