As I look within, I find my own Spiritual growth. The upward climb into maturity has had alternate routes. Paths crossing, U-turns, endless bridges crossed and a few actually burned. You hear a lot, if only,” I knew then, what I know now.”  Actually, in truth,  it is a repeated message I tell myself. Honestly,  if I were able to go back and change the mistakes I have made,  I just might. I get,  I am human, sometimes the thought of that kind of power, excites me.  Realistically, I know, everything has led me to this place of discovery, the broad highway of spiritual existence.  Not everyone is going to look upon the choices I have made and come from a place of forgiveness.  The twist is, in this moment, I can.  I have.  As I look into the eyes of this grey eyed girl, I find a comfort there. For the mirror I hold up in front me, casts my reflection and I know, within this place, and space, I dwell.  As fate would have it.