Dear Experience,

What should I write? What should I say?

What should I give that will make your heart sway?

What could I tell you,

One who has seen it all

A quote, a message? A personal scene of withdrawal?

I’m just a child, with no knowledge to tell

Of the outside world, of my outer shell.

Yet I’ll try my hardest

To make you see

That experience is little

When words are heard to believe.

I have been through moments of FEAR

Family yelling, ‘Stay away!’

I would crawl and hide safely,

Feeling afraid, so afraid.

I have been through moments of SADNESS

That make minds no longer sane

Moments that bring tears and tears,

Echoing the pain.

I have been through moments of ANGER

When fists would fly

Words would crumble to pieces

...I try not to cry.

But the moment I’ve been through

That outshine all the rest

Is the one that has meaning,

That brings out the best.

It is the moment of HAPPINESS

When the sun would shine

Right through the clouds

Gleaming in the sky.

As if yelling, as if screaming,

“I still rise up! Up and Up!

From the horizon, from the ground,

I’ve never once given up!”

So why should you?

If moments bring you down?

Can you listen to me?

For this is all I can tell!

When SADNESS overwhelms you,

And FEAR brings dark

Light can break in

And clean your heart.

It will help you smile

And lift up weight

Like a mighty warrior

In the web of fate.

When ANGER fills you,

And words are no longer enough,

Try something like actions

Man up and hang tough.

My mind might be tiny,

My knowledge quite little,

But I will be strong, my friend,

So yourself don’t belittle!

Do not hesitate, I learned

But think and think

And always remember,

Moments are chains that are linked.

Together they are bounded,

By each and every start

Bring happy moments in your life,

Bring them to your heart.

That is what I have learned,

That is all I can say,

I give thanks to Experience,

Who paved the way.

♥~

-M.C.E