see yourself in a new light

you had to build walls so that they won’t see

how much those words, spoken and unspoken, landed on your psyche

like grenades

walking through life feeling like an open wound

I see you

layers of shame

excavating

to find your true self

buried under impressions taken in unfiltered

this is weakness

this is uncertain

I have no straight answers

no satisfactory explanations for what I feel to be true

In a world that demands certainty

You are the mystery

You can hold magic

The potentiality of that which is yet to be

This is the mirror

See yourself in a new light

You are being reborn

To live free