Prefrontal Cortex

Thank God I was born in 1979

and the things I said out loud

before my prefrontal cortex 

was fully developed, when I

was brazen and stubborn, 

and I believed the way I 

experienced life was the same 

way everyone else did. Before

the Holy Spirit had its way

with me, altering me from the

spaces between my bones—

thank God that happened 

before my half-formed beliefs 

and misunderstandings could 

be recorded and immortalized,

to be perceived as my full truth,

long past the moments I held 

them, and long past the 

moments I laid them down,

having seen a thing in different 

light. Thank God the ghosts of 

my past beliefs only haunt me 

and those who knew me then.