Thank you for the tears

Thank you for the pain

Thank you for the memories that I’ve tried to erase

Thank you for the gifts

Thank you for the lies

Thank you for I now have a better idea of what true love should be

Thank you

For though I was once bonded by what I believed was right, you set me free. You set me free to see the bright world outside. The bright world outside the cocoon I developed around me, based on the ridiculous expectations I set for myself. 

Thank you

For now I know that true love brings peace. Now I know that true love brings happiness. True love brings friendship. True love brings an unbreakable bond. True love brings overwhelming joy. 

Thank you

For if I hadn’t experienced what I thought to be the norm, I would not have appreciated true love when it came to me. Would I have recognized it? Would I have grasped unto it tightly and never want to let go?

Thank you for you prepared me appropriately for the bright future God planned for me.