Tough As Nails

They all knew it.

When her heels hit,

Nails clacked,

They knew it.

Perhaps they had always,

Perhaps they had never,

Not known. Her.

She hid in their shadows

Soul of cement

Will of iron

She built them up and

Tore them down.

They heard her and ran,

Some toward, some away

And for them it made

All the difference

She didn’t fear them.

They didn’t know her.

An arrangement based in blood

And signed in souls.

She could change their lives in half

A thought

And they barely remembered her

At all.