Blank Canvas

The journey to healing

A blank canvas

Crumpled under dysfunction

She smoothes the cracks 

With achievement and perfection

Day by Day

She tries to undo the damage

Picking at the cracks

Until they start to bleed

She pushed too hard

And broke through the canvas instead

Where there was a crack

Now lays broken pieces

Fragments that she tries 

to fit back together

a puzzle that she can't solve

all on her own

She learns to rest, reflect, reach out

And in a moment, she begins to understand

The canvas was never meant

To go back to its original form

Embrace the cracks 

As they will always remain

It's okay to be

Forever changed