who only by moving can balance

for jjhunter, in response to Linkspam Feels Tectonic

(even if you feel the slow & endless grinding--
even if you feel your edges worn away to nothing--
even if all you can hold onto is the idea of stopping--
you are alive you are whole you are
exactly as you are meant to be you are moving
you are sloughing off old skin, revealing
the brightness of your new scales, your new plates
of armour, born of fire and you
have kept going kept crawling
kept living
again and again and again
and every single one of your earthquakes
everything that wrenches at your seams & scars
reminds you
that you are alive
that you are here
that you are connected

you are beloved:
most of all, you are beloved)