HEALING
Healing is a process.
There is no end.
I peel off layers like the skin of an onion.
Just as I reach “the end” something happens
To remind me that I have room to grow and progress.
A purpose, a goal.
Healing involves friends, family, God, self
Agencies, tears, books, tragedies,
9-11, deadly weekends in Salt Lake City.
All are opportunities to revisit
The horror and violence of my past,
To maneuver through another piece of the process,
To come through stronger than I was before.
Healing is progressing to peace without forgetting the pain.
I hope I will always cry when I hear the cries of other women.
To travel back with them, to feel their pain,
Not from sympathy, but from empathy,
From having been there.
Healing is the peace of coming to terms with my past;
Forgiving myself for staying, for not leaving sooner.
For marrying him in the first place.
Healing is learning to set boundaries in healthy ways,
In knowing that some will lie about me,
But in being able to let go and let God.
Healing is the calm, the peace;
I am ENOUGH!
The joy of having my children
The relationships we have created.
Knowing that my children and I are enough!
Our home is enough!
We are MORE than enough!
Healing is the music, the magic, the peace,
The beauty, the calm, the thrill,
The ease with myself and where I am,
And who I am becoming.
~~Sharilee Guest, 2003
Sharilee Guest
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