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Who Am I

Who am I? I am a man who is filled with hate, who has made an immeasurable amount of mistakes, someone who cannot even appreciate anything good within me. I am an addict, a wounded soul; that wants to be whole. Who am I? Am I a product of my pain? A man who is insane? Who has nothing to gain? Who cannot change? Who am I? Am I am mistake? Am I a slave looking for a way to numb the pain? I am stuck in this haze. I am bound with the chains that cling to my past pain. This may be insane but no, I am more. I am more that my wounds that ooze with regret. I am more than the pains that have built up in my past and I will outlast, because this too shall pass. Just like when someone arm is in a cast. I am healing. There is pain before healing because these wounds are sealing and making me into a better man. I now understand this pain, and these scars are freeing me from living behind the bars of my addiction and my past. I am a success who will get nothing less than the care and healing from the doctor of my soul and yes, because of him I am made whole. One day, these surgery scars will worn with pride and be proof that I am truly alive thanks to this doctor. So who am I? I am the product of my healing scars, from the stitches that give life, that give the blind sight though its holy light. I am the product of this doctor who restores the soul, who renews old, who fills in and molds the broken life back together. So, who am I? I am the addict who will be made whole; I am the bone healing in the cast, the slave being freed from the pains of my past. And even though I was found broken and maimed; the doctor took me in and gave me his last name and that is what defines who I am.

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Date: 11/28/2020 10:07:00 AM
Inspiring poem my friend. Thank you for sharing your suffering and success. Pain is certainly unavoidable, it’s how we deal with it that matters. It looks like you have accepted the past for what it is and have found a healthy path forward. Congratulations :)
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