How I Got Through
An original poem written in 2022
“What got you through?” She asked.
The bitterness, the despair, the never ending lonesome.
The days that were so cold they almost shattered
And me with them
I didn’t see the light
I just kept going
One foot, one minute, one day after the other
Until there I was
On the other side
Then a hundred days past and life returned and like an undertow brought me right back
Back to the days I had survived but quickly forgotten
The reminders all around…
I didn’t think I would make it then, but I knew I would make it now.
2021 was one of the hardest years of my life.
Minutes felt like hours, hours felt like days. I often went to bed thinking I wouldn’t wake up, and sometimes, the suffering was so immense, I didn’t want to.
But the human spirit, the will to live, ran deeper than I ever knew.