these painful lessons

in hindsight so obvious yet I had to tread the path I did to see behind

yet again

I suspect much to my dismay that I will do it again always face this same demon

of self not for lack of trying to better

myself or improve on past mistake and hurts but because they only show up

in the rearview mirror

is this character dissociation human nature

or the design for which I’m meant to live out

what is meant