Today’s path

Up this mountain legs are burning 
The feelings begin churning 
should I go back or stay away 
Stay away is the plan today 
Sweet thoughts cloud my head
Aloneness brings on the dread
The woods my place of peace
Remind me that I’m really free 
No longer hostage to your ways
I can breathe again no longer afraid
Of your triggers on this path 
Forced to absorb all your wrath 
You’re not here I’m going alone 
I tossed you like a skipping stone 
You tried bouncing back my way 
I’m smarter now I have to say 
I’ve seen you with my open eyes
Blocking all the many lies 
Of changes you promise to make 
Seeing them for nothing but fake 
You charm, you beg and you flatter 
but the truth is all that matters 
My story will be different than yours 
you’re the victim I’m the whore
I’m taking the path that leads away 
The path of peace, and on it I’ll stay