Self Growth Poems - Poems about Self Growth

I’ve been a chameleon my whole life— Blending, shifting, changing with the tide. I have worn a thousand faces, each not quite my own, Shifting like shadows, wherever I was thrown. But in the silence, a whisper would start— A voice from deep within my heart. What remains when there’s no one left to please? Just me in the mirror—no disguise, no...

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No, my heart doesn’t ache anymore Eating ice cream on the beach It’s June, and with it all, For the first time In a while- It’s calm I’ll try diving in the pool Cold hands wrap around me As I look at the skies painted blue The lessons I’ve lived Won’t come back to haunt me- Not anymore...

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Remember how you’ve come such a long way Becoming iterations of what you’ve become You’ve grown vulnerable with a pompous inner child You know joy is about being grateful And your grief has melted to give way to life But the tender love Of those who loved you Has steeped into your soul You now diminish the ties that...

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___ You cannot escape yourself, I know we wish to be someone else. Comparison is an easy deceiver, no one is much cleaner, Everyone has their faults, Your not the only grain of salt. No one can share a duplicate identity that would make you a nonentity....

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Mere silence is all it took to put an end to her soul's cries Her heart, caterwauling in disharmony has been waiting for the storm to abate It has finally happened Her heart no longer goes to war as its deed has been narrowed down to one - to fulfil its role as a diligent pump in burning quest of keeping her body...

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THANK YOU for my LONELINESS that SETS me out to many lanes and PRODS my mind to search on that EXTENDS my being to others and EXPANDS my heart to believe. THANK YOU for this LONELINESS that WOUNDS my heart again and again and FORCES a reckoning of my emptiness that MIRRORS my raw loveliness and DRAWS YOU TO FILL THE VOID when piled on sand my LONELINESS....

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Salt and sea breeze rubbed against my skin, The soul left my lungs to inherit it’s win. I looked around and found aesthetics in the dark, Captured in polaroids , memorising my own heart. The reality is what I don’t allow them to see, It’s covered in stardust, saved only for me. It took me a while to realise what...

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