“This journey of healing

Is mine to take”

“I was trapped

In a rose covered shack

Where others saw and envied

The petals

And I not able to wiggle

Past the thorns”

“Comfort

In my vulnerability

Of baring nothing

But

Who I am”

“I release

I rise

I become”

“Let myself open up

Releasing blocks

Letting them drip off

Like melting icicles”

“I take my body back

And today

I decide

What is done with it”

“Seeing the things I so desperately want

Being taken with victim fingers

Reminds me of what I take

With those hands”

“I push aside the soil

Excavating jewels

My meaning from the pain

That now decorate my story”

“How must I heal

When tainted voices

And slathered vile

Splash my internal mind and skin”

“But the anger slept beside me

And awoke with me”

“My guilt for pleasure

Has generalized to all things joyful

Compounded by the abusive touches

To my mind body and spirit”

“If I showed what was truly within

All the shadows

That decorate my walls

What would you do”