My Story (an Original Spoken Word Poem)

Let me tell you my story – I don’t know if there’s a happily ever after

What I can tell you is that through the sadness and pain, my life’s full of laughter

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Alright so, my life has never been a peaceful walk in the park

Some days have just been so damn dark

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I promise, I was born a delightfully happy-go-lucky kid

But all that went downhill, it’s like someone unscrewed the lid

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For so many years, I was beaten and bruised

Blood, sweat, and tears, outta me it all just oozed

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Called so many names, I started to believe them

What I shoulda believed though, is that I’m a priceless gem

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Much time passed and I found myself a 20+ year old

Just watching my life starting to unfold

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Reality hit and I was all grown up, not a child no more

I had seen too much sadness and hurt, apparently that’s all I was good for

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I started taking the blame for things I wasn’t to blame for

The angrier I got, the more things I slammed, door after door

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It’s like I was so hurt and broken, I was sinking into a hole, that’s all

Talking to me was like talking to a brick wall

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I found myself wishing things a person should never wish

But like every shot I took, it was a miss after miss

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As all the lights started to dim

I would pray and pray, late at night to Him

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“Why God, why me, why me”

From these thoughts, I could never flee

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But even at my darkest, I never wished darkness on him or her, you see

Cause I would never ever wish for anyone else to be me

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And when things would get a little too much

I would just tell myself, “Hey, it’s okay, just hush”

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I used to look at my reflection and see

The most important person not smiling back at me

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There were good days and there were bad days, all wrapped with a bow

Ups and downs, there was just no flow

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I found myself falling, sinking, all alone

Then I knew i had to find myself, all on my own

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I shoulda asked for help sooner, but I thought that would make me weak

What I didn’t know was that there was help all around me, all for me to seek

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I sought out to seek a great perhaps

And found pieces of myself, with no clues or maps

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Now I wake up every morning with the intent to make others laugh and smile

That’s what makes my life all the worthwhile

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Now I don’t avoid my reflection, I look in the mirror

I smile and I see myself a little more clearer

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I took all the self hate and put it in a box

I’ve realized that negativity talks but positivity walks

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So now here I am, breathing and alive

Achieving goals, one by one, just trying to thrive

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I’m trying to hold onto some peace, love, and sanity

In every day, I try to seek clarity

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I’m a work in progress, as we all are

But self-love is the only thing that’ll take us anywhere far

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Someone great once told me that without all the lows, we’d never appreciate all the highs

I guess what that means is, make sure your hope never dies

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Honestly, the whole point of this is to say

You just gotta wake up and live life with belief, day after day

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Life’s a struggle and then you die

The only thing I know is that you gotta believe, jump off, and fly