Jusjess Poetry – Growth, Healing, and Discovery

And as if I didn’t know that 

tests will come and tests will go 

like I don’t see myself reaching 

for heights that are new to me 

knowing that challenges will come to test how much

I really want to reach my destiny.

Especially during happy seasons of life. 

UH OH, THE GAS LIGHT IS ON 

Going back and forth inside my head, 

I said a prayer to God

but went to handle it myself instead.

And sure enough I reacted in 

an emotional fashion. 

I said that I am honest, 

some days I seek rational explanations.

I said that I’m healing

and through awareness and contemplations 

I was shown – 

I disappointed myself. 

Underneath it all there’s this one

thing that still baffles me. 

But I can’t and won’t

go back down that road. 

I mean too much to me.

Merry Christmas Eve! 

Note to self: Letting folks disturb my peace? Nah, that part is up to me!!! Let’s try it again, Jess. It’s a new day. And it’ll be a good one. You’ve got to pass those tests, poet. 🎄✨💛 🤗

I have shared a lot about the things I have overcome, and the last straw in the realm of “reasons to get my life back in order” was my last short lived situationship full of intimate partner violence. I try my best not to give power to it, but it does have its way of popping up at the most inopportune moments when it comes to me maintaining a healthy, peaceful life. But not today, not this holiday season, not the rest of this year, next year, and so on. I remind myself to reinforce boundaries. Oh, and how about an important post reshare? 

Read Cheers to Boundaries, from May of this year, below:

Cheers to Boundaries, a New Thing

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