From My Inbox

(the following was sent to me word for word as an e-mail from a beloved person.  I turned it into a found poem)

Hey you… 

That's really great to hear.

 I am feeling a lot better, too. 
Remember to be gentle and kind

 to yourself!

Forgive your leg for breaking

 and forgive yourself

 for not being perfect. 

Remember we are human. 

Each experience is

 an opportunity to

learn and grow,

as unpleasant as it may be.

I’m starting to see this light

at the end of the dark tunnel

 I’ve been in the past week.

Believe in yourself.

 Trust that you are a good person

 and a strong person.

Any fear or self-doubt

 we experience are just emotions.

They're not who we are inside.
Emotions are there

to help bring us back to ourselves.

Let them be there.
If we resist them, we get stuck there.

 Feel them and let them go. 

I’m glad my visit helped you.

 I wasn't sure if

I was any help at all.

But glad that I was.

And I think it helped me too cause

I needed to take the advice

I was giving you

for myself.