When You Stop Crying

A Public Announcement to The Emotionally Abused

Standing

I See You

Standing

Standing Because They

Could Not Bend You...

You're in that corner

Not Hiding

But Growing

The Haze that they tried to place around you

That fog

That growing blanket of disrespect

Could not cover you fully

I left this here for the souls who have suffered

what you too have suffered

This the 1st sanctuary

they'll look for me as they often do those who become

one with the truth

but they'll only find and idea

on a sheet of paper...

you're awakening

The bad times and bad people have ebbed

faded in sallow shadows of the past

and you're still here

Your mind

is washed in the waters of wisdom

cleansed in truth and

You see it plain as day but

You won't embrace it

you'll grow into it

there is no fight

just growth...

The lies are as ashes strewn upon the waters below

The hatred as if a spent ember has lost its glow

and... you...change

The channel that the farce was on

The station that meted out that foolishness

is all but a mere shadow

dead in the tombs of yesterday

but it consumes you at this moment

hurts in ways that

even if you explained it

the meaning or the even the understanding of it

would be lost

it rises

seeks to conquer

but it fails because

You Must Grow...

Those days that you had angst

fed you and

You had to weather many storms but

your eyes are no longer

lit candles

but several suns

a bright nova

Transcending all that has transpired

and you see beyond the dawn of sorrows past...

the new way scares you

the path is laden with that which

you are afraid to see

but you will know

and you will gain

freedom...

the way you see yourself is a condition of the sickness that surrounded you

in those tragic moments

the positivity waned

and you heard those words...You're right back where you started

lies and lies again within

the sickness that surrounded you

but deep in your heart you knew it was all false

and so, you've reached the destination

where they all come

When the time comes...

You weren't abandoned

you shed them...you shed that time...you shed that space

and now it's you and

you're stronger...

You don't have to break free or escape

You're done with that foolishness

You

Just don't know it yet

Instructions are not necessary

What you need to know is already inside of you

and has been there for ages

You just have to embrace it...

It's time to come up for air

and live in the new mind

The Tears have been many

The Tears have been many but

The Tears

are a construct of those who deem sorrow

noble

and see your life as just

a wastepaper basket memory...

You catch your breath

let the heaviness of yesterday's betrayal

fall deep into the dark pit of

end

and here

is where you stop crying

and when you stop crying

You have found your way...

I know longer fear them

And neither will you...