whole again

I am happy in unbearable way.

when you have to dance
and cannot dance hard enough to let all
the peace and contentment bubbling
inside you run into the world
happy in a way

earned back after so many years,
Put back together with the confidence and joy of being twenty
the simplicity of being young—earned back

with patience, tears, and time.
Re-found
on the other side of much sadness—
I have met myself again for the first time.

it’s like I am twenty all over again, but happier.