A different approach to
understanding and overcoming addiction
Discover the works of
Elisa Fortise Christensen—
where poetic storytelling meets healing and transformation,
and each page invites
the heart to awaken.
About
FINDING BEAUTY IN THE DARKNESS.
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My life has been hard,
Full of pain and tragedy.
But taking second chances,
Is just not for me.
We are all a brilliance of colors,
A kaleidoscope colored sea.
From all of our joys,
As well as our tragedies.
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The trick is knowing,
What most of us never get,
That we are all a type of perfection,
That leaves no room for regret.
Second Chances © 2012 EFC
I wrote this poem one day after wondering what kind of woman I would be if I hadn't experienced so much tragedy and difficulty. I asked myself what I would change if I could go back in time.
Suddenly I realized that I wouldn't change any of it, even those chapters that were devastating and life-altering. We don't grow during the smooth times, we grow when we have to scratch and claw our way out of the devastating, heart-wrenching, bad times.
I am a mother of two beautiful sons, a daughter to a mother who has been my beacon of light, and a woman who has been blessed with some lifelong, extraordinary friends. I am deeply connected to nature and music is more important to me than food.
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I don't write the poetry you find here, the poems seem instead to choose me whenever they feel it's time. My best work usually comes to me during a deep sleep and shakes me to my core. Then I know I've created something worthwhile that will profoundly affect others.
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My life's goal is to reach my highest state of grace and leave this world just a little bit better through my brief flash of a moment that has been my life.