Poetry Collection
Part 1:
Leaving Behind The Past

Walking on anyway because this place wasn’t designed to be your forever. 

 

It wears you down until there’s nothing left; 

Then, it moves on to the next. 

Leaving you deprived of time, energy, and pieces of you. 

 

Turning over to see the next chapter couldn’t have happened if you didn’t leave where you used to be. 

 

Walking on and leaving behind, 

Past anger of old issues. 

They mean nothing now. 

 

Remembering, that a shift in life

Doesn’t mean you climb higher than those still where you used to be. 

 

PRIDE isn’t a treasure to hold on to. 

Humility is the biggest lesson. 

Empathy is a treasure. 

 

Walk on and take with you the lessons 

That have been embedded in you

From that tainted place. 

 

Those tough situations strengthened you. 

The roughness that occurred from the mishandling of you

Polished you.

 

You take with you a perspective that changed your life. 

How small you may seem in the eyes of others 

Has nothing to do with who you truly are.

You now know that

Contrary to popular belief,

There is value in working in the lowliest of places. .  .