Birth – a new life
Lots of possibility
A blank slate
Years to be lived
Loss – people come and go
Pain
Confusion
Longing for something better
Words – cut through me
What do I do?
How can I please?
When will they ever end?
Anxiety – rips me apart
Constantly afraid
Always on alert
Nobody could possibly understand
Graduation – a glimpse of hope
College is coming soon
Another blank slate
So many possibilities
Empty – disappointment
It still hurts
It never ends
When will it ever go away?
No, no, no
I refuse to give in
I refuse to give up
I refuse to lose
I can see it – a bright future
A roadmap of scars
A beautiful masterpiece
Embrace the emotional damage
A new, beautifully broken me
The pieces slowly glued back together
Never looking back