Rejection

I never knew the blessing that was

to come from my rejection.

From the email I received

Telling me I'd not reached that goal

Of getting a place at the university

My father had learnt at all those years ago.

I was not disappointed, for I already saw

that this university was not a place for me;

The top in the country, but stuck up,

And I was stupid.

But I could never have seen how that rejection

Would deliver me from a life of hurt

And pain and upset

From addiction and hatred,

To a life of love and freedom and light.

That rejection lead me to a university

Where I would meet the love of my life

The friends I would feel myself around

And would break the curses of abuse

That had held me my whole life.

And I would learn so many lessons

About how to treat myself and how to think.

And that rejection solved my pain and upset

It fixed my mind and my heart and it stopped me

So suddenly, from the horror of my brain and from

The will to end it that I had endured for so many years.

That rejection was a blessing

That saved my life.