If I could talk to my past self about my present-self's triumphs...
I'd tell them that the rainbows that lived within them
are now worn on proud sleeves.
I'd tell them that their new sunrise
is in the form of a sassy cat gracing
their every morning with cheery meows
and curls up like a crescent moon
at the edge of their bed nightly.
I'd tell them they're married to their best friend from high school
who loves to philosophize as much as they do
and they have another best friend
who's a poet that they would fan "gurl" over in secret
before our mutual friendship was declared.
I'd tell them so much,
but I can't exactly get tea with preteen me,
so I simply keep living
and choose to believe in retrospective healing.
Énouement is the bittersweet feeling of having arrived in the future and seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.
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