Lessons Learned
Taught me how to laugh
And how to cry a sea of tears
How to defend myself
Shut the others out by keeping distance
Taught me dignity to stand alone
Through a multitude of humiliations
You didn’t want me to know your ways
Your true face through all the lies
You locked me out -left me alone
Even when you were here
You kept your secrets well
But now I know the real you
Better than I know myself
Now you have departed
And I’m no longer alone