So many nights I lay awake

Thinking of how to date

Myself

Is it by my age or is it bigger

Than something meant to take

My years away.

Might I admit that I

Like feeling older

It helps me see more

And understand my hope

Is impressed with tales

So many of them take me

Beyond an expression

The love, the hate,

The worship, the memories

Take me to my limits

And suggest I continue

To express my fortitude

Is in how I deliver myself today

Not yesterday,

What possesses me is my very own

Succession of leadership

Skills I have honed in on my entire life

This is the courage it takes to resume myself

Not as imperfect but as remarkably

Perfect.

Today I am courageous admitting

My failures and my past does not mark me today

And may I absorb in this passion of life

That does not conform me

But inform me for my future tests.

I rest in this.