Like I was missing something
that was never there,
something created in my mind -
  a feeling,   a friend,
  just pretend.
                      Comfort.
                       Trust.
                       Care.

      peace .
All parts inside me,
perhaps a 'second set of eyes'
helped ta reveal
what was difficult to see -
  in me,  by me,
but, mirrored in another's eyes,
I have.  finally.


and now a bud grows on my windowsill from something I truly thought I'd lost -  the one I thought I'd killed.
but there it is:  Beauty,  Hope,
in dawn's orange light.
what was gone, now is New,
by no fault of mine.

the,  potentially,  "Best Day Ever".
    i meditate,   prepare,
then shower  and step out.
         Here we go,   again
              we shall see
          I'll take notes
              for what could be
            
             the "best day ever"
one More time,    again

  again
..
shedding skin.


shedding skin.
out with the old
in with the truth -
Finding who I am
when I don't have  a  'you'

again.
   Shedding skin.

to Original colors
stripped down past the blue,
revealing the real me,   set free
not just    what I've been through.

Finding myself   all over again.
shedding skins