Ode To My Past

Here's to you because you have 
taught me..
To arise above the pain that life has
brought me.
If it wasn't for you I would never
know..
When I stood at the cross roads which way
to go.
You taught me to focus, see beyond my
eyes..
Press toward the mark never ever
compromise.
I saluate you 'ole' past, and all I've done
wrong..
Things I can change even the things I can't
atone.
These were the things from which I cried at
night..
Decisions I've made when I chose to call wrong
right.
Here's to you 'ole past' because you have 
taught me..
To rise above the pain that life has 
brought me.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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Claudine Avatar
September 26, 2011 at 6:14 AM
beautiful way around words to make them flow.
Sherman Avatar
September 27, 2011 at 12:09 AM
I bow.
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