A Poem a Day: a Series – Day 69

Day 69: “The Little Girl Who Couldn’t”


One thing about me

is I like to be unfair to myself


Well I don’t like to

But you’d think I do by how often I do it


Past me’s

are held to impossible standards


“You’re stupid,

Bad,

Terrible,

Because you didn’t know”


But what recently I learned, realized

is I couldn’t know


How would I know

if no one taught me

helped me

told me


So what was once tangible

Something I was on the cusp of

Should have

Done


Was now something impossible

Intangible

Far

Something I couldn’t have done


Which opens up the door for me

To forgive

Myself

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