No less deserving
are the kids who grew
up to be adults, and realized
that they were made to be blamed
for all the wrong problems
The children who grew up
being the problem child but
feeling more like the family
problem
The parents who had to place
cement barricades around the
construction site of life they
were building, not to keep anyone
inside, but to protect their own babies
from the ones who taught those
which are no longer babies
If there’s one seed you can take
and nurture let it be this; you did
what was best for you and that is
what’s best for all
Showing up for yourself entails a lot
of showing up alone, but that is better
and more beautiful than backing down
Backlash doesn’t mean you are bad
and betrayal doesn’t mean you are abandoned.
Choosing you is the start of something new.
I’m proud of you.
