I've had a lifetime to deal with all this pain,

at one point, I think I went insane.

I've always made it back to myself

except I always lost a part of my self.

I love who I have come to be

but sometimes I wonder if it's me.

would I be the same had life been easy?

probably not, I prefer turbulent to breezy.

At least I've had my lessons to learn,

for their lives, I will never yearn.

The pain has made me who I am today

and I will have it no other way.

I've had a hard past, that's easy to see

but it has made myself a better me