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"