Shadows

There always seems to be lurking shadows of past behavior, past mistakes, past experiences, beckoning me to visit them once again, to succomb to their power over my thinking, yet my healing takes me further and further away from their grasp, to a place of comfort and safety.  I am a new person, and I no longer need to dwell on those things.  I've come a long way, and I am now able to be ME, with my own mind, my own way of thinking, my own feelings.  I know that as I continue to look forward, to what my mind's eye and my heart of hearts see as my future, I will be comforted by the fact that I am no longer under the control of the shadows.