• I’ve been pushing, pushing
    Trying to move on.
    Embracing life itself
    Rising from where I’d fallen.

    Thoughts appear less
    My tears slowly drying.
    No more feeling empty
    Staring and sighing.

    I thought I was walking steadily
    So why am I now stumbling?
    A word breathed from the past,
    All it takes to send me crumbling.

    Pain I thought I’d banished
    Is leaking from my core.
    The wounds have not vanished
    They simply sting more.