Integrity

There’s a fire that is born when you betray your integrity.

It begins with guilt and continues on to confusion.

Usually it ends in regret.

But what also comes is a fire that burns in your soul.

An anger, a warrior spirit that splays a shield of protection around you. And you turn that regret into the most powerful words a person could ever meet.

No more.

No more letting others breech or push through and beyond your boundaries.

No more self betrayal in the name of keeping some one else happy.

It’s like an absolute, solid full stop.

And there might be aches that linger, and there might be fear of failure; worries you won’t be strong enough to stand tall.

But you learn who you are.

And you fight to be true to the beauty of you.