Ready to Slay a Dragon

"Ready to Slay a Dragon"

by Samurai

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I welcome this change with an open heart.

I welcome strange paths and a brand new start.

I welcome saying goodbye to all this despair,

The hurt and anxiety that made me worse for wear.

I welcome no longer seeing your judgmental faces,

Because in this world there are better places

For me to be, and for me to thrive,

For me to love to be alive.

We had a rough start, and I put up walls.

I stood alone and out in the halls

Because I didn’t know a single face,

Because I was foreign to this miserable place.

Maybe it isn’t as bad as I say,

And maybe you’re not toxic – it only seems that way,

But I was rejected and judged, and you wouldn’t move on

From the mistakes I made at first, mistakes long gone.

I was laughed at and ridiculed, taken as a joke and nothing more.

Maybe you don’t think you did it, but it hurt and made me poor

In the areas of self-confidence and self-love,

Because all I knew was hate for me and the stars above.

Because I never fit in, I never measured up;

My entire being was never in that cup

Of perfection and uniform personality

That you all had poured into; that’s reality.

You were all the same – jeering demons to me.

You were all the same fish in the sea;

Not a single variation could be found,

Because by your uniformity you were bound.

But no more do I have to be hurt by you –

The sky glows with a different hue,

And it’s the hue of change, a new start.

At long last, our ways will part.

This time, I welcome change with an open heart.

This time, I’m ready for a brand new start.

This time, I’m going to love and live and smile,

Because I don’t have you to drag me down into the pile

Of misery and darkness you have built.

My sword is ready, and my hand is on the hilt –

I’m ready to slay this dragon, and that dragon is despair.

I’m ready to breathe fresh, cool air

And finally move on from this storm of pain.

And, at long last, I’m ready to dance in the rain.