Climbing to the Clouds
How to Let Them Go | A Guide to Peace
1. Spend six months building a brick wall of denial. Watch it eventually collapse. Bury yourself in the debris.
2. Spend another six months rotting at rock bottom, drowning yourself in insecurities and beliefs that you are worthless.
3. Try to claw your way out and end up bleeding out again, collapsed lungs and skin flecked with shattered glass.
4. Whatever you do, do not throw yourself off the cliff face. Whatever you do, do not give up.
5. Shed your bruised skin and pick yourself up off the ground.
6. Burn the letters and the hiding places and the memories. Burn it all down and start anew.
7. Wait for thoughts of them to evaporate, notice how much lighter your shoulders become when the air no longer tastes like their absence.
8. Climb your way to the clouds. Realise that without them, you can fly.
About the Creator
Poppy
poetry in progress
The Piggy Project
I’ve had so many names in this life I lose track of which ones were ever really mine and which ones I wore because someone needed me to. Some were handed to me before I had words to refuse them, before I knew what they meant, before I knew I could say no. Most weren’t meant to hurt. That doesn’t mean they didn’t leave marks. Marks that told me who I belong to, who I am by way of who claims me, recognizes me in the good and bad, who walks beside me.
By Fatal Serendipity3 days ago in Confessions
Comments (3)
Excellent challenge entry/poem. I like the hopefilled conclusion.🥹
Nice! I like it
That was so powerful and uplifting. Happy to see you here again Poppy. Hope you're doing well