Goodbye Apt 831

Goodbye to my first solo apartment

Where I discovered

Intense joy on my own

Where I met myself

Without all the masks

Where I knew true inner peace

Where I grew with painful healing

Thank you to the place

Where I got my first cat

Who taught me through her own fear

To love and trust again

Good riddance to the crappy blinds

And the shitty carpet

She stained with piss

No matter how many

Litter boxes I got her

Goodbye to the home

Where I reinvented myself

Celebrated my first THREE years

Transitioning on testosterone

Recognized myself in the mirror

More every morning

Thank you to the rooms

Where I fell into

And then stepped out of love

That wasn’t enough in the end

But changed and saved me

Good riddance to the grounds

Where I was deadly determined to die

But consciously chose to live

Where I decided to go to the hospital

Instead of checking out for good

Goodbye to the sanctuary

Where I delved into social work

Caring for homeless teens

And mentally ill queers

Learned the tools to my own liberation

Thank you to the people I became

And left behind within those walls

As I evolved

To the few people I invited

Into my safe space

Good riddance to my self-harm

And bad habits I left behind

When I found myself worthy of fighting for

Goodbye sweet solitude

Hello living in harmony

Hello healing in community

Hello to my next chapter

I can’t put the book down

Burning through the pages

But not to skip to the end

Hello hope for the future 🤲🏻❤️‍🔥🫰🏻