This fall I fell through the cracks in the sidewalk and
stayed there while the world closed damp and marshy above me.
The streets hummed low rhythms that lulled me to sleep
and I kept my eyes closed for three months until they
snapped open like a timer had been set off,
my body’s reminder that all dreams must end.
Now I hold a toothpick to the ceiling and slowly excavate myself.
Even when all seems dark, I’ve learned you can still dig your way out.
If you don’t feel like yourself right now, it’s probably because you are not that person anymore. Sometimes you fall apart and when you go to put yourself back together again, you’ll find that there are missing pieces. Parts of you have been lost along the way but it’s important that you don’t go searching for them. You don’t need to backtrack in order to feel whole again. This is your opportunity to grow, your chance to bloom into the person you’ve always wanted to be. You might have lost parts of yourself along the way, but you will never be incomplete. You are enough all on your own. Keep going.