Nobody's Life Was Perfect

The older I get the more I realize
That everyone has tears and
everybody cries...
Everyone has had trials and everyone
has had pain
Some find it awful hard to get up and to
begin again.

Everyone has fears that try to haunt them
From things that hurt them long ago
The longer that I live on this earth
The more I know this
to be so.

Even when life seems at
its happiest
Most folks have baggage
from the past
That tries to interfere and pop up again
But we must dismiss those thoughts and fast.

When those phantoms of your childhood
try to haunt you
Dismiss them and send them away
For those shadows of your childhood
Have no right to your today.

Something i have definitely struggled with and continue to but things are better not great but better and i'm very grateful for that. But if not for that past would i even write?
Those phantoms are still spoken of because they still exist in brothers and sisters i love.
There is only one way to be free of them and if i stopped writing about it, the enemy by default would win. i know it's not for everyone but it speaks to someone who is at this very moment is still standing exactly where i've been.

I know what you mean. I wrote this a few years ago for a lady who was struggling to get over some awful events in her childhood and she wanted something to remind her that they were in the past.

I think we learn from everything and we can ask God to help us remember the lesson and enjoy the growth but leave the fear and the guilt behind.

Hugs

PS I know your writing helps many people. So you are using what you have learned from all you went though.

i learn alot from you.

I don't have the depth that you do but I do my little ole lady thing.

Hugs

it works for me just fine, i don't know who this lil' ole' lady is...anybody i know?

LOL

Did you see the poem I did with all emoticons...2 of them.