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Writer's pictureDr. Jaketra Bryant

Seeing things from the other side

I call this one a new side of me. Each day I

see you. I see the newness in the way you

allow, the way you pause when something

unfamiliar yet familiar reveals itself. It's

funny how life makes you forget who you

are. Or should I say the individuals that are

a part of your life? Rather for a reason,

season, or lifetime; somehow they have

managed to make you either forget or

remember who you are.


I get it. I am supposed to hold my head up

and stay strong and dust my shoulders off,

turn the other cheek all while being the world's

best mom and most likely to succeed in

love and life. I forgot something, "they"

forgot something no one taught me how to

feel, respond, or allow.


I was only taught

how to be and react and turn away or keep

quiet or stay out of "it"


The "it" of life destroyed my sense of self. I

went left because I was told and turned

around because you were afraid to let me

peek around to what was unfamiliar.

Unfamiliar yet familiar because something

deep inside me always knew this was not

it. I learned to avoid the pain of you and me

only to become further lost in my makeup

reality.


I have been looking for her. Who is her you

ask? She is the one who got away. The

one that faded in the stories of your fears.

She was never given a chance to see a

different side because the one you showed

her was full of walls and restrictions; walls

that I later grew to know kept love and life

excuse me did say life. I mean light out..... right?


The light that I desperately needed but did not know it was missing until something inside of me just couldn't stop wondering.

Well I

only lived from a place of limits, walls, and

don't do this or turn from sin. It's to protect

you "they" say. Trust me, you don't want to

know "they" say.

No, I do. I do! And I always have.

I have been curious about the

possibility of love and life my entire life and

when I peeked out to explore I was yanked

back because it looked so unfamiliar to you

yet familiar to me. Only I had never gone to

the place of receiving love, liberation, and

pureness.


Pureness I have come to know

was not about your virginity but about you

showing up as you without the walls and

limits. Showing up as the limitless God self

blemishes and all only to show how great

you are as you are and wherever you go.


I call this one a new side of me. Yet,

unfamiliar to you but familiar to me.


I think I will stay a little longer.





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