How Can The Same Lesson....

How Can

The Same Lesson

Show Up

In So Many Different Forms?

How Many Times

Do I Have To Cry

Knowing To Myself

I'm Telling A Lie

As

The Truth Is

In Plan Sight To see

Chose To Ignore It

Because It Didn't Reflect Back

What I Wanted It To Be

Now It Hurts As I Breathe

As The Truth

Stares Back At Me

Mocking My Tears

As My Eyes Turn Red

From Cries

I Am

No Longer Able

To Keep Within

From Disappointment

I Breathed Into Existence

As To My Life

I Bare Witness

Ask Myself

What Is It

This Time

That I Have Learned



How Can

The Same Lesson

Show Up

In So Many Different Forms?

I've Been Through Enough

To Recognize

What Isn't "True"

Can't Call Something A Lesson

When You Play Your Own Fool

Can't Sugar Coat The Truth

To Your Imagination

You Were Used

In A Magnificent Plot

The Main Character's Your Heart

As Your Conscious

Is On The Side Line Pleading

Knowing Vulnerability

Is Deceiving

It Grew Tired Of Grieving

In My Stubbornness

I Did Not Listen



How Can

The Same Lesson

Show Up

In So Many Different Forms?

An Imperfect Human

Within I Face

What The World Ignores



In Spite Of

Inevitable Pain

I've Grown

To Love Myself

For All, In Which

I Sustain




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