Coming home to yourself

A poem that I was inspired to write

In a situation where you can’t be heard, silence speaks a thousand words

For in the silence is strength you see, the strength is your authenticity

We are all here to learn, and thus grow

The frustrations of life will only slow, the flow of life and the journey to be, why do we keep fighting, we are all family

The truth of it all is there to see, that I am you and you are me

You see I am sensitive and you think of me as weak, you say I’m a dark cloud and I look at my feet

That I am too sensitive, and a lot of hard work, and being in your life is causing you so much hurt

Once again, I allow to carry your pain, for I fear it may be too much for you to carry the strain

More and more I am hurting, the weight I can’t bear, you see I am suffering, but you don’t seem to care

Then finally I realize the pain that I see, the pain that I’m carrying, is the pain within me

For what is not mine, is not yours to share and what I see in you, is a reflection for me to care

To look deep inside of me and find the courage to face, the wounds that I have been carrying and offer them grace

As I look now, all I can see, is a child in pain, looking back at me

It’s time to stop, it’s time to see, that it wasn’t you, it wasn’t me

They had to happen, they had to show, to help you find, your way back home

To see them for what they are, not darkness, but light, the opportunity for growth that I thought wasn’t my right

To find forgiveness, for what was meant to be

With a change of perspective, now I can see

That what I thought was wrong, was actually right, but without the struggle and without the fight

I wouldn’t have become the person I am now, how far I have come, how much I should be proud

To get this far and finally see, that all along, I just had to love me!