the road

you don’t know me
like you think you do
complicated circumstances
of huge, life-changing proportion
have colored my emotions
and not allowed
my natural being
to fully express itself
I see it in you, too
the stumble in words
the hesitancy in action
you look for your own road
and don’t look back
not realizing
you walked right by it
if you had only given it
time to breathe
to see what was on the other side