the best revenge after being exiled to a deserted island by the people we once trusted with our hearts
is for us to learn how to
practice self-love
while staring off into
the distance of
our former relationships
~ to sit down on the beach
where we were abandoned
~ to hold a long stick
that washed up on shore
~to write these
words in the sand:
“I am enough."
and every morning
when we wake up
to find that the tide
of our isolation
has erased our words
we write these
words again:
“I am enough."
my love,
when we are
left for dead
it’s easy to
start to believe
we deserve it
so, that's why we
write it every day
“I am enough"
"I am enough"
"I am enough."
don't let the words
disappear for long
~ we must keep writing them
every
single
day
and over time
those exact words
will start to appear
in the clouds above us
“I am enough."
and then in the bark
of the palm trees
that surround us
on our lonely island
“I am enough."
and on the coconuts
we break open to
slurp from
“I am enough."
and the more we write these
sacred words out
in the sand of exile island
the more they will
show up all around us
“I am enough"
"I am enough"
"I am enough."
yes, those who
ghosted us may
never come back
to tell us why
but the best way
from being haunted
by them
is to let them go
and to replace the space
they used to take up in our
hearts
with a chapel of self-love
we build for ourselves on
the beach
where every log and stone
that we use will soon be
etched with
the same words:
“I am enough.”
~john roedel
Gratitude to unknown artist
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