(originally written 2/17/10)

it has taken
3 years
36 months
1095 days
26,280 hours
1,576,800 minutes
to work through the traumatic grief
of a Significant Wound
that occurred
02/20/07.
I am not the same person I was before that date.
I am changed
for better and for worse
I have found out who
my true friends and family are
and I have discovered things about people
I wish I never knew.
I guess you could say
Significant Loss takes its toll
You get to swallow the red pill
And see what’s really underneath the matrix
and as painful as that is,
it is good.