Becky Hemsley Instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/beckyhemsleypoetry?igsh=dXpiNDlneXBueDE5 https://www.beckyhemsley.com/. Poem transcript: We all of us have chapters That we wish we’d never written Pages that we’ve torn or burned Or locked away and hidden We all have masks and costumes That we wish we’d never worn And lines that we have spoken That we wish could be withdrawn We all of us have characters We’d strike clean from the page And maybe big decisions That we’re desperate to change And we are very tempted To pretend they don’t exist To tell a perfect story Where these things are all dismissed But do not hide those chapters They’re your story’s little scars And they’re crucial to your tale Though you might not think they are See without them all your story Isn’t quite the one you wrote And we have to make mistakes If we’re to learn what matters most Yes, without them all your story Will be hard to comprehend Remember - some things only make sense When we’re getting to the end