Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters

by Morgan Harper Nichols

Tell the story of the mountain you climbed. Your words could become a page in someone else’s survival guide.

There is more to you than yesterday.

Take deep breaths often. You are going to be okay.

And if in the past, you sowed what you did not need, there is nothing that says you must keep watering those things.

You are moving north in the mountains now.

Because if nothing else, darkness taught you: grace was the fire burning wild and unbridled in your tired heart.

More than she was known for her accomplishments, she was known for the way she loved.

"I do not know why things turned out this way, but I do know I now have something to say."

But until she gets there, she will learn to count these moments not as a loss, but as the time she needed to make it across the mountain range of things stretched out before her.

Maybe you were made for this very moment, to walk bravely through blazing fire, and by grace, come forth as gold.