This is me,

all of me,

why would I want to change,

I’m unbroken,

at least that’s what they say.

The truth is though,

my mother always told me,

we have to identify ‘they’

otherwise we really don’t know anyone.

I know sometimes

I want to change,

step outside of the skin I am,

make a new shell to live in.

It took me a lot of years

to figure out a way,

to show resistence

let my defenses spill away.

I can’t change the mistakes I made,

I can only change how I respond today.