Today is my birthday, in case you didn't figure that out from the title. I was going through some old journals at work, and I found a hastily scribbled poem that I wrote last summer, I think sometime in June. Anyway, I really like it, and thought it would be fitting to post here on my birthday.
Today
Just for today
I'll climb that mountain
and come down the other side
I'll leave behind that part of me that almost died
Today I'll keep going
at that steady pace
without fearing the tiger at my back
It's no longer a race
I won't run to you
or away
I won't hope secretly
that you'll ask me to stay
I'll hold myself
with my own two arms
I'll tilt my head towards God
when my heart sounds it's intruder alarm
For today,
you'll see the girl I once was,
a thousand years before
I swear, today, you'll be able to see so much more
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