LET THEM ~ LET ME

Mish is tending bar today in the dVerse Poets Pub ~ Her inspiration? Mel Robbins and the philosophy she follows! 

it took me forty years

to stop rearranging my soul

to make other people comfortable

years of ironing opinions flat

serving apologies warm

nodding at nonsense

i spent too many years

trying to earn gold stars from folks

who could not find their own joy

and then somewhere between

reading glasses and forgetting

why I walked into the kitchen

i discovered the holiest phrase

gifted to women

"let them"

let them whisper

let them think i may laugh too hard that

i'm too old for bright colors, bold patterns

here i stand wrinkled, wiser

harder to shame

easier to delight

let them misunderstand me

underestimate me

roll their eyes

i am unapologetically myself

after so many years

"let them"