Soulsearching Poem by Skylark Woodrow

So this is what has come of all my trials and tribulations,
Of all those dark nights with seemingly no end.
I know who I am.
I know what I am.
I have walked with myself through the fires,
Through the endless void of life and its troubles;
I have sat through the darkness and learned its name.
And trust me,
To know its name is very important.
Names and knowing have a power;
The knowing being a deep intimate thing felt within your very bones.
I have learned this name,
I have learned this knowing,
And I am solving the labyrinth of this heart.
I have probed with feather-light fingers into the depths of my soul and have sat and have found.
There is a certain depth to which people know themselves;
Or believe that they know themselves,
And yet they are always questioning, "Who am I? "
And then there are those who patiently wade through the troubled waters of their spirit,
Those who seek and find all the little bits of themselves,
And learn to love each and every piece.
Now this loving isn't just accepting, and sitting with all the fragments of you.
This loving says, "this is where I am, and that's okay,
But I will take all these broken parts of me and I will work with myself to become who I'm meant to be."
This loving says, "I love myself right here,
Right now,
But I understand that I am growing and changing and becoming each and every day,
And I will walk with myself hand in hand through it all."
This loving gives you room to become all you are meant to be while still loving yourself right where you are.

(20.4.19)