Please Be Patient With Me

Please be patient with me

I may seem jagged

I may be a mess

I may be slow

Indecisive

Never knowing what may come next

Please be patient with me

When I feel like the world has turned upside down

When my emotions are running wild

With tears rolling down my eyes

And my voice cracking like a shattered porcelain doll

Please be patient with me

When I run away to think things through

When my mind is so jumbled

That I can't even see daylight through the fog

When it feels like every turn seems to be ten steps backwards

Please be patient with me

When I am engulfed in a storm of darkness

Just grasping to see the light

I promise I am trying

However everything seems so far out of sight

Please be patient with me

I will turn around

I will remember what dancing in the sun is like

When the golden rays touch down in your skin

And make you feel alive

Please be patient with me

For I am fragile

I am only human

Making mistakes

And learning as I go

Please be patient with me

And I'll remember

What it is like to feel the glow

That kind that radiates from deep inside

Like the coming of a magnificent thunderstorm

The kind where lightning takes over the sky

And thunder rattles the ground

Sending shivers down your spine

Please be patient with me

And in return

I will show you

Who I am inside

Like layers I will slowly peel

Like the rings forming the trunk of a tree

Holding this history

Of what has made me

All I ask

Is if you could

Just maybe

Please...

Please be patient with me