All That Can be

All That Can Be

I’m guilty,

for hiding my shadow in the dark;

for justifying my regrets

with bullshit;

for everything that was not,

and will never be.

Putting aside redemption

for cowardice;

putting aside the changes

for the fear to fail;

putting aside the future

for a dissatisfied present.

The great tragedy erected in the lack of power,

in the rejection of what I don’t appear to be,

and in the atrocious decisions

that haunt me restlessly.

After so much waiting

only this remains,

where the past will give me the courage

to move to the light and never return;

the courage necessary

to face all that can be, that will be.