Peace Be with Me

peace be with me....

Peace be within me,
as i stagger away from the storm.
Bruised, battered, bleeding-
alas, i am calm.
The harsh words, slit my skin like knives,
as i watched the truth bleed out...
and nothing was as it seemed-
but my eyes, they are tired from crying.
Dampered, i knew that my scars showed,
illuminated in the dark-
for those who cared to see...
I tried to hide them, from the world.
Silently, I stood back,
breathing all of it in...
the truth,my life,my pain,the lies,these tears-
so i could understand the path i had led.
And as the air touched my lips,
i held it all in...the truth, my pain, your lies...
and i exhaled, i exhaled with all my might.
so that there was nothing left inside me-
i choked as i gasped for the truth.
And i let it go, the past...and all that held me back.
All that i have known of pain-
the scars....still here...but different now,
I hide them not, they remind me-
of you, of me, of life and all that i have learned.
And as i stagger, painfully at times....
still i go, towards the light and what is new-
wiping the tears from my eyes.
Peace be within me...
The bitterness i know no more.