‘How do you hold on,’ said night
‘To peace in the day?’
‘To keep what I have,’ said light
‘I have to give it away’**
Lemn Sissay

The evolutionary purpose of story is conflict resolution … The riveting conflict in any story … revolves around the internal struggle that the protagonist goes through in order to solve the external problem.^
Lisa Cron

We might imagine some idyllic story
for ourselves, yet, it is in the struggle that
we will know that we are alive:
A conflict without prompting a swedge within,
Another word for which is growth, and perhaps another,
Flourishing.

*Swedge (n) Scottish for brawl or fight; present participle: swedging;
**Lemn Sissay’s let the light pour in;
^Lisa Cron’s Story or Die.