"This is me: The Present Zhu"

Presenting myself to the past,

I pieced together a couple pieces: 

The unresolved past 

Bleeds into the future

Past memories turned into current thoughts

A war for the present 

A battle for the moment 

Life gets heavy 

The hurt starts to weigh on me

The tears falling down my face

Become the rain that washes away my pain

The past of me 

Becomes a part of me 

Fighting in the moment 

Fighting to find the light for my future

My dark past 

Will always try to cover my bright future

But I know

I’mma keep believing

I’mma keep breathing  

Knowing there’s always people thankful that I’m alive

Knowing there are people who need me to stay alive 

There’s pain but

Rain will never wash it away

There’s fun but

Will never stay all day 

There's darkness but

It feels like you can never run away 

There’s light but

It feels like it never comes your way

There’s going to be questions but

No answers 

There’s going to be times you need someone but

No one answers 

There’s going to be days when you just want to run away

Hide from the pain

Trying to make it go away but

The only escape is accepting those dark days 

Accepting the fact that 

Life isn’t all about bright days

It’s about getting through the dark pain

To have the ability to dance in the rain 

Then we’ll be able to enjoy life and every thang

Reflecting back to my past, 

If I wasn’t born smart

I had to live smart 

Translating in elementary 

Not even understanding how to speak english 

This was my life living as a kid 

I never found much friends

I always had friends find me 

Too much social anxiety living in me

Too much depression weighing on me

I was always strings attached 

Living a life that wasn’t mine

Trying to fulfill a dream that was never mine 

Fun never existed. 

If I wasn’t grinding 

There was something wrong 

Grinding became my fun  

Grinding became my darkest light 

Grinding became my only escape 

Before I would find myself living in the grave 

Suffocating as a kid with

No one who could understand how to help me

Drowning

Asking for help never existed 

Living as a kid never existed 

Meeting new people 

Helped me understand different pieces of Z

Life is living with a broken heart

Searching for new pieces to place in 

Your vision of yourself

There’s so much living to do

But we spend it focused on how broken we are

There’s so much brokenness in us 

But we can’t fix everything about us 

There’s so much fixing to do 

But there’s never time to fix it 

Then why try to be perfect

When you could be perfectly imperfect? 

Why try to be not broken 

When you can be whole and broken? 

I hope this piece of zhupoetry

Could help you piece together

The peace you need 

In this world of broken pieces