I Forgive You
When your words and actions crack me open
a little in several places, I go away
to hopefully see many sunny days
and clear skies across spanning
over any number of miles, clearing
my mind by listening to different languages,
witnessing lifestyles of all sorts,
eating meals prepared in ways I hadn’t imagined
in order to maintain body, mind and soul,
while considering what I think is right
and looking around me knowing
that maybe I’m not okay in your eyes but I’m
alright in others’ eyes and knowing that a world
with just you in it doesn’t define me.
After understanding that I’m enough,
that I’m indeed growing and still have a lot
of potential to reach and many more warm
and even cold rainy days to walk in in solitude
from all the good that has happened to me
because, again, I know that I’m much better
than what so much of what you have said
