After knowing someone for 23 years there is a new horizon awaiting for me. It was over years ago , life got complicated and now it's a healthy peaceful parting if not joyous. ( I love playing matchmaker!) .... I have my freedom and physical space. I am single with no entanglements... it could only mean I'll end up an artsy cat lady but I am free to be who I am and follow my gut. My journey is here. My heart has some hopes , my head doesn't dare...
 Endings are only new beginnings. Sometimes the ending is brutal and sometimes it's only a confused whimper. But all things come to an end , even when there was a long duration that lent itself to the fantasy of forever. The only things that are certain in life are taxes and death as we all well know.
 So what do you do when it's over?! Accept the lessons you learned. Move on with grace and dignity. Treat people the way you would want to be treated. Walk away on clouds not swords. Know that you now have something to bring into your future relationships because you grew and came out a stronger person.
  Learn your lessons or they will repeat themselves until you do. The missteps we made were our professors in life , honor them.  The bad teaches us as well as the good. Ask yourself the imortant questions and listen intuitively for the answers.
 Be honest with yourself and know what serves you and what doesn't. Remove the heavy weights off of your back so you can stand in a direction of your path. Walk towards the light, sense what feels right. Never let your mind go on spin and become a runaway train of fear. Most of what I have feared in life was anxiety and low self esteem on my part. I would convince myself it was never going to happen or be a toxic nightmare. I now have the power in my hand to let it go. I can regret not saying things when I should have but I can't change the past. I just have to make peace that my thinking has to change. I have to let all the negative energy and inner dialogue that has scarred me bleed into the river of life.

In all the hidden vessels

Rest the demons

that shatter us

Laying claim to our light

We are not good enough

under the gremlins gaze

Standing tall under the emotional Bandaid tourniquets

Rising in voice

The mirrors blockade

Rejuvenate the wreckage

My skin is social cigarette burns

These scars are razor blade paintings

seen in dripping red

Walking through the glass uncut

Title: I have overcome

Cyni Poeti 2018