One is new at this.. comments welcome, cheers (",)

Love the opening stanza, hiding that pain behind the mask from others.

The poem is beautiful and I really agree with how you say life is not a race, and you cannot change another person for yourself, they have to change themselves if they want to, or we need to accept and love them with their flaws too.

I like the honesty you used, the patience for life and love, and the belief that this love is real, and everything will work out how it works out.

The punctuation needs fixed, as most of our older work does! Funny that you used to write in rhyme haha, I would not have had you as a rhymer when you started!

You do have a good talent for titles though, and you clearly always have done.

Glad I eventually stumbled on this!