A New Me Poem by VITUS OKECHUKWU

I am hanging on false
The world of fake ones
Who cries smiling
And all thought okay
Though I have read
And learn to write
Life was still the same
I have no joy
And all I have is me
You wouldn't believe it
It is what I learned in me
That makes the difference
Who held me bound
I was a strict person
Who seems mean
I was the kind of person
Who held so tight
What I could keep
What is mine
What was given me
And what I had loved
And what God gave to me
I couldn't leave it any longer
I wouldn't release it
They are mine to keep
I held to myself
I held to my Goi held to my family
I held to my business
I held all to good work
It is where my heart is
And what I loved being
Though I have come in my hand
Holding on to my pain
For I added hatred to it
And the sins of life
I am living in pain
I am living in fear
I was confused with life
And who will help me
If not myself
I was burdened
And all I need is be saved
Yet I held to the past
Which hatred is in
Till love sought me
Letting the past slip away
When you held the pain
And one day, it will happen,
And it happened,
So I start letting go
I dropped my bondage
I was free indeed
My life be becomes lighter
I find what life means
And what is worth doing
So I can have a good life
And be a better person
Every day of my life.