When You Are Healing: A poem

—when you are healing:

set some boundaries.

do not let them treat you

as you were.

do not treat yourself

as you were.

you are stronger now.

you are healing.

re-enforce yourself with a boundary.

it is not a wall.

it is soft.

it is protecting

you.

because--

you did not dig your soul

out of the dark

to hand it to someone else.

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This poem was written by April Green and was published in her book, Bloom for Yourself.