The process of being able to grow. The opportunity to make choices and mistakes; to make the most of what you have. Learning how to love, how to hate, how to forgive and forget. Being able to fulfill your purpose, achieve your goals. The opportunity to explore and discover. Life is full of obstacles; how you overcome rewards you with a splendid thing: experience. Regardless of the choices you make, the lessons you learn, the obstacles you overcome, the end is always the same. In the end, life is lost.

I wish I could go back
To before...
Before I knew the truth about you.
I could still trust the words
You tell me
I could still look at you
without disgust....
It wouldn't make you better
It would simply make me ignorant
And I'm ok with that....

I'm exhausted,
Exhausted of being the one
no one really sees,
The fake smile,
Hiding the pain
I choose not to share.
Tired of hiding
My frustration, my disappointment,
Of feeling neglected...
The irony of it all?
I don't trust anyone
Enough to let them in.