Believe in yourself

 

I know its hard

When so many people in the world try to convince you

You are wrong bad or broken

For suffering as you do

Or just showing your human scars

But believe me my darling

You have come so far

Often over fields of flame

Or through devastating storms

Where sheets of rain

Lashed against your psychic window pain

Threatening you with the deluge

Of a lost self

That then seemed to drown

In all the rage and tears

You were shamed for expressing or stopped to shed

But please my darling

Don’t believe their lies

For it is these shallow superficial ones

Who are sleep walking through this life

And it is no shame for you to have suffered

In the very way you did

So wear your scars with pride

But don’t affix your identity too much

To thoughts of brokenness or incapacity

For truly vulnerability is the most authentic strength

And what  is broken

Must become so as to be opened

To reveal the soul

Whose truth and beauty and depth

Should never be denied

Please my darling

I beg of you

Believe in yourself

And through this vulnerability

Acknowledge the strength

It took you to survive

And stay alive