What You Do Not Know

You do not know the countless amount of tears
I have cried as I have relinquished some of
The control I once had and how I faced my fears

Head on like a collision. How I thought love
Would never come my way or happen to me.
When I thought that the symbol of the dove

Was mourning a loss, but it helped me see
Hope and prosperity. I got back my power.
I know I could become whoever I want to be.

A phoenix that rises from the ashes or a flower
That blooms in the dark. I will no longer beg
Or be small as I will be as tall as that tower

That tried to really knock me down. A peg
Or two from the ground and dirt, but I am still
Standing right here, almost losing my leg

Fighting in this war. The energy and thrill
Is back in my revived body. There is a new
Me underneath. Someday I hope that you will

Understand all that I have been through
To get here, a place where I feel the sunlight
And when there is a magnetic pull towards you.

I cannot stop walking towards the bright
Possibility of not only a future that is mine,
But a future that is yours. I prayed for it at night,

Something that is always so delicate, divine
And beyond what this world has shown us.
Together, I see us walking alongside the line.