The Center Now Holds

The Center Now Holds

By Jane Tawel

April 1, 2019

by Wattpad

I never had a center until now.

It took me many years to make

My center sometimes appear.

* * *

And now it often all a-sudden,

Shows up —

Solid, sure and unafraid.

* * *

It was sort of lurking long inside me,

Always a jiggly mess though;

Like a cake without a finished middle,

Still raw and sloshing left and right;

Unable to hold still enough for

Me to feel I even had

what other people easily used,

As nourishment or weaponry.

by Drawception

All my parts were always flying off in pieces.

Now sometimes I quietly sense in me

a firm center

Unbroken and unyielding.

But this annoys or terrifies you.