The Serenity of Singleness

A poem on the journey of self-acceptance and self-love following a life changing mental health diagnosis

TV made me believe public displays of affection meant exclusivity, transforming a moment of kindness into something timeless… isn’t this love at first sight?

Now enters dubious inquisitions on free will, like how far did the disease’s talons reached? Or had it already made waste of my heart and chameleon’d in its place?

For I was like water, fitting any vessel needed at the time, searching for the missing piece of me in someone else’s masterpiece

Older, life has drawn skeptical lines, my diagnosis has filled in the white.

The love I have for myself, has been a subtle drum beat rising in crescendo.

There is a difference between vanity and self belief but this exact

moment

I am the best version of me

The serenity of singleness has me telling them speak now or forever hold your piece.

I have silenced the thirst of being wanted the patience for question marks the desire for apostrophes and plurals.

Full stop.

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