strength

Today someone needed me to be strong for them.
I wish that they had needed me on any other day;
One when I wasn't feeling so
weak
afraid
inadequate
incompetent.... but I feel that way today.
I had to dig deep to find what they needed from me,
like searching for a gold ring you dropped in a lake.
But I found it, bright and shimmering, in a way I never thought possible.
And just in the nick of time, too.