Taking Time by Protyus A. Gendher
This was me just taking time
To just reset and realign
To put together what was left
Of everything I gave away of myself
This was me deciding to heal
The pieces of me that could still feel
This was me taking time
To open myself and see what I find
To make a place to become and be
Free from social regularity
Free to create and free to explore
Avenues that weren’t open before
This was me taking time
To see what was on my children’s minds
And help them find the ways to heal
And sort through things imagined and real
This was me taking control
Enabling them to finally let go
But as much as I needed to be taking time
To discover a place in the world that is mine
The world doesn’t stop for someone to grieve
Friends I made found it convenient to leave
And so yet another
Social turnover
After 14 years of abuse, me taking time
Meant scrounging for every dime
Even after two degrees
That I have to admit in reality
We about me
trying to heal and find me
Until there was clearly no more time
Alone without any help in sight
All the learning and good deeds I’d done
Left me without the finances to move on
Dropped out of grad school to go chase the money
But the world was moving along without me
We had run completely out of time
In a life spent out of line
We slept in the store, and in our van
In a hot storage unit with no fan
Grasping at opportunities slipping through our hands
The cost of finding myself too grand
Operation **Reclaim** Loveland 
What do you think?