Strength Is Not
The Sword You Carry.
The Strength that is being referenced here is not a physical strength, but a Strength of Character, an Inner Strength and it comes about when One allows themself to be Vulnerable.
Much like a flower allows itself to be Vulnerable just so it can display its beauty and express its fragrance. Not for any reason of vanity and ego, but simply because this is what is in its Nature and in this state of Vulnerability, it allows Truth to be expressed through it.
But the flower is a fragile and delicate thing and in the course of its life it will be scorched by sun, pelted by rain, savaged by storms; yet it will not complain nor play the victim. Instead, it will continue to display its beauty and express its fragrance, regardless.
At any time, the flower can be squashed in an instant or uprooted mercilessly. But even this, does not dissuade it from being a flower.
Then, the moment may arrive when it is crushed, its life ended, its resilience finally overcome and still, for a few moments longer, it will continue to express its fragrance, not apologising for being a flower.
And thus, the flower is Powerful.
Even when faced with its own destruction, it still does not deny, that it is simply, a flower.
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