Like Jewelry

Wear your Past:

Like fine jewelry,

Forged of Love and Pain,

Shining in its imperfections:

Your Goodness,

Your Godness,

Mingling:

With the fear & weakness:

Those choices right & just,

Those wicked points:

Regrets that make you hide,

Decisions: carefully cloistered:

Torturing you still…

Wear the necklace

. round your neck,

No slaver’s chain:

Trapping you in Regret,

A record of your Way —

Let the Love you are:

The Pristine starlight,

Rising

. from a pool of Possibility:

Let that shine,

Let that lift you up,

Out of yesterday’s sentence,

Into tomorrow’s dream:

For you are better,

Better than you’ve been,

Better than you thought,

In the darkest place,

Your Love shines still:

Yearning for release,

Singing songs —

Only you can write,

Walking paths,

Holding hands,

Healing wounds,

Composing dreams —

Only you can see —

But, needed by us all…

Look into the mirror,

Let Love save you,

Let it wash away your pain,

Let it feed you in the rain,

Let it dry away your tears,

Leaving only Hope —

And strength enough,

To let the Better come…

Richard Palmquist, DVM GDVCHM CCHVM

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