I See it in Your Eyes

I know what you have lost, I see it in your eyes,
how you miss the way you saw before.
You want so badly to go unrecognized,
for someone to heal all that is sore.

You were only a child when you first broke,
and knew not how to walk but were asked to run.
Innocence into amber, hope into smoke,
left to give youth back, virtuous resignation.

I held you when you cried, and told you to be brave,
and knew that latent time was all I could give.
I found pieces of you here and there and part I did save,
misshapen and mangled, you were determined to live.

You are stronger than you think and better than it all,
your beauty is in your will to move on and grow.
Learn from this and remember what it felt like to fall,
flourish in the power and be conscious of what you now know.

I know what you have lost, I see it in your eyes,
the light dim that once surfaced from within.
You need to love yourself to see fully with no disguise,
to honor yourself truly is to honor where you have been.