Will you rub my back when I’m feeling tense?
Will you hold my hand after making amends?
Will you encourage me to keep sipping tea?
Will you help me up if I fall to my knees?
I once was very much broken.
Once, so very rudely outspoken.
I once was selfish & unkind,
More than once, lost my shit, my mind.
Will you excuse the awful poetry?
Will you refuse my negative ‘woe is me!’
Will you kiss my dirty smokers lips?
Will you wipe away my mascara slips…
I once was always inebriated.
Once was satisfied but never sated.
I once was an attention seeker,
Never once the listener, only the speaker.
Will you take my past & my mistakes?
Will you accept my scars, bruises & breaks…
Will you trust that I’m a better me,
Will you think of me pleasantly…
Please
Believe
I am okay.
I AM okay…
Honestly, I’m so far away
From the darkness of my yesterday.
