Mending Fences: A Poem
When the mistakes you made somehow led you to the things you're meant to have, you know you're doing something right.
How do you make peace with someone you had wronged in the past?
How would you begin to mend that fence?
To revisit that part of yourself you wanted to hide away,
To fade away into darkness,
Only for it to come back up again,
Even after a self-promise you thought you meant?
Or finally jumping into that current
That you went out of your way to avoid,
No matter how hard it was,
Making things less convenient than they had to be,
For you and that someone involved?
How do you come back from all that?
How do you explain yourself in a way they'd understand what you went through?
There's no avoiding this current anymore,
Even if now you could you want to.
When the mistakes you made
Somehow led you to the things you're meant to have,
You know you're doing something right.
And if that someone is meant to be there for those things,
Then don't run away from that ever-growing current.
You've got the sense,
And you've got the words.
Use them,
And say you're sorry with all you have.
And if you're lucky,
Your apology will be appreciated and accepted,
Even after its long wait.
