Make of it what you will

Today dear reader, we wrote a letter. We all have unsent letters inside of us, and our goal today was to write that letter and pull our poem out of it. This was an easy write for me. It took less than 20 minutes to find the theme and write the words. Make of it what you will.

Rod E. Kok
October 7, 2018

Bullied, broken;

coerced by phantom pressure

which existed only in my head.

Words of wisdom come to you

from this man who sees

through eyes of retrospection.

Wishing you could hear

what I had to learn.

Pining to send strength

through time’s closed door.

How different things might be

should that gateway to yesteryear

open.

Better? Worse?

We will never know.

Mayhaps for our benefit

our experience was what it is.

You grew into me;

what I am today

is because of what

you endured.

Make of it what you will,

a half-century of time

lies behind a portal.

Make of it what you will,

you survived what you imagined,

you got through what was real.

Make of it what you will.

Make of it what you will.