What We Are Healing From

Half the battle 

Of this life

Is acknowledging

What we are

Still healing

From

 

Personally

I’m still healing from 

 

Disappointing others

With how I live

And what I believe

Though I am living my truth

 

Disappointing myself

With how I let 

The opinions of others

Impact me

 

Disappointment overall

With the unfair

Unsteady way

This world works

 

With how people die too soon

How unkind words can leave permanent scars

How jobs pay our bills but don’t fill our souls

How illnesses linger

 

It’s a challenge

To live this life

And grieve it 

At the same time

 

To acknowledge

That this beautiful life

Often lets us down

And isn’t going to change

 

And that’s really ok

Because maybe 

I let life down too

 

Maybe life spends its spare time

Trying to figure out 

How to heal

From me

 

Maybe life

And the humans living it

Are in a constant clumsy

Dance 

 

Moving forward

In the only ways 

We know how

 

Doing our best

Along the way