Friday, May 29, 2026

The Cost of Memory

The Price of Healing 


We never really 

close the door— 


we only learn

how to enter

differently 


Again and again

we walk back

to our many origins 


revisiting

the places

that made us 


reexamining

our emotional foundations 


confronting

the unresolved memories—

even the painful ones—


because healing

does not come

by forgetting 


It comes

by returning

without becoming trapped 


Healing is a process—


not overnight 

incremental at times 

a sudden leap

at others—


but always

a movement 


toward balance 

toward breath 

toward peace 


and toward 

the version of ourselves

that can finally hold

what once held us 


© Ron Simpson Jr.

May 28, 2026


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