“My Revelation”

(Rhyme Scheme: ABAB)

I walked a path I thought was mine,

But every step felt strange, not quite right.

The sun would shine, the stars would light up the nights sky —

Yet shadows whispered in the light.

I chased the dreams they said were true,

Their voices loud, my own so small.

I climbed with hope, as climbers do,

And smiled while bracing for the fall.

But silence found me in the haze,

A truth too loud for me to fight —

I had wandered through a maze

Of who they were, not who was me.

The mirror cracked, and in the glass,

A different face began to show.

Not tied to shame, nor chained to past,

But one who’d need to break free from the mold, so I could grow.

A whisper turned into a call—

Not from above, but deep within.

And in that moment, I saw all:

The years I lived, the parts that died.

Revelation didn’t roar—

It wept, it laughed, it begged, it stayed.

It opened up a hidden door,

And let the ghosts I feared… cascade.

I now walk paths I choose to take,

Not ones they paved or said were best.

And every move, and every ache

Feels more like my truth.

Me now living for myself.