Six Years

Six Years
Since the beginning
Two years
Of silence

I revisited my past today
Four years of my life
Little memory I have of them
Yet four years I saw so vividly

That girl
The poems she wrote
Was that me?
I know it so well, yet its hard to believe

The love
The pain
The grief
The turmoil
The acceptance
All relived

The emotion of that time,
almost too much to handle
Even with the maturity I have now
It was more painful six years later

I am a different person now
A woman, perhaps

Time has swept me away
Taken me from who I was
Made me who I am
and I was still stronger then...
Six years in the past