Take The Lesson

Learning is a gift

Even when pain is your teacher.

Some lessons arrive

With open hands.

Others

Come with claws.

But both

Are gifts.

Pain strips you.

Opens you.

Forces you

To face the truth

You kept avoiding.

It breaks

What needed breaking.

And reveals

What needed rising.

So take the lesson.

Not the bitterness.

Take the wisdom.

Not the wound.

Because pain

Is a harsh teacher,

But still

A teacher.

And every scar

Is a certificate

That you survived

And learned.