I Choose: To Open Up

Years have passed,

yet, letting go is a must.

I have pushed

I have been pulled.

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I have built

a world of happiness.

Alone, yet, surrounded

by those in fake masks.

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Hope arrives,

yet, too many falseness

had caused

me to build protective walls.

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The walls,

are no longer needed,

for I trust myself

to be true to me.

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The foundation

of my beliefs

are choice

of my own making.

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When walls fell,

so did the unhealthy

need for acceptance

of a community that didn’t care.

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We all belong

somewhere in the world,

Yet, I have come

to accept not to be accepted.

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I have grown,

to see that I

am a person

no one has ever met.

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I choose…

To open up.

To dare to strive.

To dare to stand in my own power.

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I choose…

to love…

who I am

and who’s in my world.

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I choose….

to show myself,

that life is my own

and open up to not care what they think.

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Behind closed doors,

I choose to show

the world that I exist.

One memory at a time.

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I choose to…

walk away from

Other’s opinions.

other’s judgements.

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I choose to….

Ignore their expectations.

No longer

will I exist in their parameters.

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I choose…

To open up

to the world

Created for and by me.

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I choose….

to love me again

for I have

become an amazing being.

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I choose to…

give thanks

fed by gratitude

to my higher power.

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Like it or not,

I choose me,

join me

and make one memory at a time with me.

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I choose

to place good

in my life.

I hope the good is you,

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Being a warrior

and fought

the wickedness of this world

I struggle to open myself.

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Protective barriers

are gone

and I am teaching

myself what love is.

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I choose..

to love again.

to live again.

most importantly, to dream again.

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I choose...

anything that is good.

I choose to turn away

from difficult things and people.

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I choose...

Not you...

and not the world.

I choose to open to new.