The Awakening

   
I thought    
I had somewhere    
To be  
   
Forgotten  
Memories  
Held me captive  
   
Yet somehow  
   
Clarity clawed  
Through  
The thicket    
Of self doubt  
   
Turns out  
My life  
was just  
A stop gate    
   
My confidence  
Diverted  
   
My self worth  
Abandoned  
   
I lost myself    
In the pleasure  
Of others  
   
Afterwards  
Empty arms  
Left my soul  
Uninhabited  
   
Those chains  
Were meant  
To be broken    
   
No longer  
Wallowing  
In insignificance    
   
In this    
Stillness  
I rise