Turning The Page

Turning The Page by Jenna Kandyce Linch

My life has been filled with many a surprise
For so long I've had to separate truth from lies.
The road in life I'm traveling is long
Many lessons I learned from things gone wrong.

Along the way, I struggled with the past
The years of my life seemed to pass by fast.
Looking back, some parts I don't understand
I guess I'll never know why by my family I was banned.

The person I turned out to be wasn't what they had in mind
Answers to unasked questions I'm tired of trying to find.
It wasn't my fault they couldn't accept me for me
But if I stayed, I would never be free.

I adjusted to the life of an exile
While they continue living in denial.
They'll never own up to the mistakes they made
More then enough for their actions I paid.

I tried to go back and make things right
For the family to stay together, they chose not to fight.
So from this one I had to walk away
As far as I'm concerned there are no words left to say.

Even friends left me behind
Taking advantage of me, they left me in a bind.
Their promises of always being there they broke
To them, I was nothing more then a joke.

Later on my marriage even failed
For another woman on me my husband bailed.
Apparently to him marriage vows weren't sacred
Otherwise he wouldn't have done what he did.

So my life hasn't exactly gone the way I thought
To survive all the pain and abuse I fought.
All the drama in my life I've decided to forsake
Not much more of this stress can I take.

I cannot go back and change what happened
The only thing I can do is move on, allowing my heart to mend.
That chapter of my life is over
So why waste time thinking about how things were.

True those chapters I can't edit
On the shelf though my life story doesn't have to sit.
The beginning of the story won't ever be revised
But the ending waiting to be written will leave us surprised.

In our lives we are the only ones who can write the story
From our perspective of things nobody else is able to see.
Each of our stories protray something different
Because through different trials we've been sent.

Our story may start out rough
But if we continue to write it, people will see we're tough.
The second part holds an ending that they don't know
As they read of our survival, our strength will show.

What didn't kill us made us stronger
That is why we are able to last longer.
Just because life hasn't gone how we planned doesn't mean we throw it out
If we quit, then we'll never know what the sequel is about.

A happy ending we might thing won't be met
WE don't know that it doesn't exist because we haven't written that book yet.
The only way to find out is to keep on living
Taking new opportunities that life is giving.

Our stories are not yet complete
The happy ending we still need to meet.
Stories of our lives we'll work on as new lessons we learn
For now, new chapters wait to be written as the page we turn.


'Turning The Page' Copyright © Jenna Kandyce Linch