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when I'm stretched to breaking point

and then afterwards I feel spent and traumatized

i'm no longer drawn to what 

was

the unsettled feeling doesn't have me reaching for what 

was

for some well worn path

marked with a sign that says, 'Go this way to avoid fear and pain'

i'm going the other way

i don't trust that sign and I don't believe in that path

I avoid my fears, I empower them 

I face them they dissolve

there's a new path

I'm on that path

not the path that

was