MeeAugraphie

Reality Check

Alone in my thoughts
I do not miss the world around me
for it is huge
and no one can be part of it all

I enjoy my own,
though not one of fiction
not one of constant stress, either

for in my world,
I can choose what to let in

except

when

I can’t.

And, even as I stand proud,
even as I say (with conviction)

I could make it alone
with no one
if
I
had
to,

I realize that much of my strength
much of my bravado
much of my ability to close the door
when needed

is because
Leon has my back
when too much of the world
too many of my weaknesses
hold the door to the other world open

and I feel both blessed and guilty
to be so lucky, even as I recognize
my own strengths.

MeeAugraphie
08/20/08

Tags: poetry, self-realization, strengths