If for your past they’re judging you,
Know they’ve no clue what’s really true.
They weren’t there to see your toil
As you cultivated inner soil.
They didn’t see you plant the seeds
Of healing thoughts and words and deeds.
They didn’t share in your shed tears
When looking back at wasted years.
They’ve no idea how much you’ve grown.
Let that be what you know and own.
If they can’t love what you’ve become,
Don’t let those fools be bothersome.
Tag: growth
Grow
We say we’d change it
If we could go back in time.
But how would we grow?
Find
Only when we are lost
To who we have always been
Do we find ourselves.
Narrative
Just tell your story.
Don’t be ashamed of lessons
Gained along the way.
Haiku: Look
Do not be afraid
To face all that is within.
In this there is peace.
Haiku: Guiltless
Keep the ghosts at bay.
Those who’ve scorned you do not know
How far you have come.
On Regret
If I could go back,
I would not.
I’m grateful for the life I’ve got.
All the choices
That weren’t right
Still led to where I am tonight.
Of course I’d want
Without delay
To take the pain I caused away.
But without all
I’ve had to learn,
I’d lose what growth came with the burn.
