My poetry prompt for NaPoWriMo and Cheer Peppers is this piece of art I created a few years ago.

There was a time when I was different. Tried on a different part of me I guess. Let her live out loud when I preferred the little world I had created.

I decided to be someone new for reasons I’ve put behind me. For a time though she taught me things and grew me in ways I’ll always be grateful for.

Now I am me with a little bit of her and I feel more balanced with her in my life. I’m glad for the moments that created her.

Maybe it was persona

The great bigness of hers

Or the shriveled of mine

The bright loudness of hers

The cold quiet of mine

Maybe she was the thudding

In the back of my head

So consistently alert

That lifted and held me

Above the loneliness

Maybe it was the dreaming

She allowed me to do

So much freer than me

So bold and colorful

More noticeable than me

Maybe it was the escape

The reprieve she gave me

To be something other

A place to hide away

From the burden of me

Maybe…

She’s always been here

This whole time growing me

Rounding out the sadness

The fire to my feet

The gold inside my night