Generational Healing

I feel like there has to be a parallel universe

because I swear our parents have to have better lives somewhere. 

It breaks my heart. 

I feel like sometimes, 

the same heartbreak a parent feels for a child, 

a child can feel for the parent.

So many secrets

So much pain

Years of scaring

Turns to personality

Turns to confusion when they aren’t that person any more.

Can we just hit rewind and tell our great-grandparents

“Try again?”

I write your pain into a tapestry but 

It’s not my story to tell

But I want to tell it 

And give you a happier ending.

I want grand illumination 

And change. 

Erasure.

And the opportunity to begin again.