I'm sorry
you feel broken.
I'm sorry
you feel bruised.

I encourage you
to forgive. But that
depends if you
are willing to
decipher your
darkened soul.

You see the world
as how it HAS
treated you.

Internalizing
such suffering; the
trauma consumes
your soul.


Are you willing
to forgive? Forgive
mother & father, who
coerced you into
a 4-year?

mother & father
who neglected to give
you the strength,
to overcome the scars
on your legs, arms?

mother & father
refused to see
that you wanted to voice
your future?

mother & father
struggled to understand
your input about college,
how you did not envision
a future in this life.

mother & father
sprung their divorce
on you, neglecting to
explain how will their decision
affect you, affect
your vision of the world?

mother & father
neglected to
coach you in this
strange, challenging
world.

mother & father
never disclosed that your
voice defines your sense of self.

mother & father
never granted
permission for you
to discover your
hopes,
dreams.

mother & father
embedded many thoughts, to
which has created
a non-believer out of
you.

mother & father
coerced you
to attend a birthday party,
which you
begged,
screamed,
cried,
refusing to go.


I am mesmerized
how your pain,
suffering, devours
your soul.

Leaving you hollow.
Leaving you narrow-minded.

I understand the
most important human
is yourself.

I know you, deeply,
passionately
love me. With all your
heart.

But my questions
to you are:
Have you taken the time
to understand my thoughts?
My feelings? My neglect?
My love to you?

But I'm struggling to grasp
that you refuse me
to glance into the
raw, blackness of your
soul.

I am not afraid,
fragile,
scared,
alarmed, as to
what you illustrate
to me.

I want you to
give me the chance
to understand;
not judge,
not criticize.  

Your pain,
Your suffering,
doesn't define you.

You, yourself
define how you
feel,
think,
see,
the world.

Trauma shouldn't defeat you.
Your resilience should,
empowering your soul.

Not your mother,
Not your father,
Not myself.

You define the power within
You.

I would like you to
believe in
yourself. But that
depends on what
you feel deep within.

I don't want
mother & father, the
coercion, neglect,
to allow you to feel
powerless. I wish you to
forgive your detrimental
past.

Because I know,
I believe,
You have the will,
might, strength,
resilience,
to change it. To what
You deserve.

Truly
deserve.


I love you.
With all my heart.
Always.