Poetry / Poem
Congratulations
Written to the prompt Write a poem addressed to your future self.
Congratulations,You’ve had difficult conversations,Gained and lost remuneration,Gone on to learn that love is not eternal happiness but a marathon to empathetic patience,Congratulations on choosing to keep running,Never losing pace,Always making space in your heart for the gift you have earned,One borne of two nations and invisible borders,You are the sower of seeds bearing the sweetest fruit,May you drown in the juice of blessed youth,Growing in the shade of your romances truth,Congratulations on being here,Living reminder of times past,Blessing manifested from grandmothers whose will could never be contained, twisted, or drained,He who would make believers of fathers whose birthplaces he does not know,He who would pray over the mother of his children’s mother,Congratulations