By Lorraine Jay
April, 2024
I’m finally free from my five year struggle,
Through all I’ve loved but I’ve also lost,
And my thoughts have been in such a muddle,
Finally free from what was once only trouble.
I’ve broken out of that loneliness of wonder and humiliation,
I can mend the pain and finally heal,
I’ve ended the timeline of every complication,
I learn to love myself and tend to that that doesn’t need to conceal.
Away from the sadness that haunted me everyday,
What was held in for so long was gone with one sentence,
I’m finally peaceful in every way,
“Why wouldn’t I?” blooming with such a powerful luminescence.
Celebrate my milestone of self-satisfaction,
How my sudden confidence boomed like a chemical reaction,
There is finally a light where there was once a resentful void,
The relief I felt,
I was so overjoyed.
And then there was silence where there was once screaming voices,
My heart was calm and yet confused,
Seeing what broke me down so low,
Suddenly I felt nothing,
There was finally a peace.