Future’s shadow

I stand poised, my toes touching tomorrow.

All the days that I’ve lived, trailing out behind me.

What seemed to take forever to arrive, now confronts me.

I need only to step forward, and in doing so, leave the past behind.

The past that I would have lived differently, should I, have had the chance.

Yet now that it stares me in the face, I falter. It’s shadow looms over me, diminishing my resolve.

There is resistance, it

is not my own.

Where I had hoped for support and acceptance, there is only condemnation.

Wanting nothing more, than for me to return to the past, and live in that manner. Hardly being able to look at, let alone be with, me.

There is no turning back, there is only forward.

I will...........step forward, regardless of the repercussions.