FAREWELL TO THE PAST

This is my life to live, and I will live it without any regrets when my time comes to depart this world.

It was a fruitless endeavour to believe you could still dominate me. Inflict both physical and emotional harm upon me.

Trying to suppress me in my current state and prolong my experience of trauma.

Convincing me that I was insignificant, unattractive, and undeserving of love.

I spent too many years of my life seeking acceptance and trying to fit in. I am an outsider, and that is what I will always be. I gave you the power to embarrass me in public and treat me as if I were insane and unintelligent.

You had no empathy to understand the pain and torture I was going through, choosing instead t you continued spreading hate and seeking to tear me down.

I never quite measured up, and you were always too ready to use me as your scapegoat. I constantly felt like the invisible person, which only served to diminish my self-worth and confidence.

You were so close to reaching your objective by stripping away my sanity and guiding me down the path to ruin. I am crafted from resilience and determination. Even if you attempt to infiltrate my dreams, I will emerge victorious, reclaiming every fragment of my power.

I want to say my final farewell to you, as I have resolved to keep you out of my life for good.

You are a memory of the past, and I am moving forward without you, leaving you where you belong. BEHIND ME

Natalie M Bleau Poet & Author

(THE ONLY WAY I COULD ACCEPT & FORGIVE THE PAST IS TO SEND IT A NOTE)

N.B The word ‘you’ as a collective of ‘many’