"You Learn"

There are moments...

Many counted...

Treasured, remembered, and forgotten

Lessons in life are plenty

Someone is always the student, another the teacher

You learn this as the years go by

People enter our lives

Helping us brave the storm

Bringing us so much light and love

Others, create the dark storm clouds and the tears that rain...

Leaving tainted fingerprints that slowly fade

You learn that we are not the sum of peoples poor choices made

That closure to some wounds only ever arrives years later

Long after you stop searching for it...

That the finality you once so desperately sought...

Came and went without a single notice...

No fanfare or epiphany called out

Maybe it was at an odd moment

In a random smile of goodness

So large that the corners trailed off the side of your face

If a smile was a hug, it would be this

Or maybe it was as you laughed

Laughing a laugh that is unapologetically yours

And it hits...

The realization dawned

That you are grateful for goodbye's

Because some have to be said

You learn this...

That life is motion forward

Your past doesn't need you anymore, your future does...

Existence in all this life that has been carried with you till now

Holding and curating space

You learn...

That a person's behavior towards you

Has more to do with their own internal struggles

Than it ever did with you...

Is when you will find peace

And you learn grace.

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