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in that moment life rushed my veins
like a heroin overdose
pulsing through every part of me
until nothing was left untouched

everything I had ever known
spilled from a karmic trashcan
into my soul
littering my existence
with unadulterated truth

-whole truths
that cut through to my heart
with razor precision
and my world bled out

I lay there on the floor
in a pool of my own disgust
regurgitating excuses expertly
just as I had so many times before

but this time I knew they were all lies
and before I could finish
melding broken and half truths
from my pile of unfinished fiction
-my tongue broke

I was left to the silence
wherein my reality surrounded me
leaving me with no choice
but to open my eyes wide
and simply see “me” as me

it was there I began to realize
I had wasted so much energy
and so much time trying
to be anybody but myself

and now here I stand before you
heart held firmly in hand
for the first time ever
-as just me

©LadyRaine