As deep as the ocean

I know pain Yes what of it?  Does it make you scared? Do I remind you of what it was like to bleed And be told it was no big thing?

Excuse me if I don’t want to join you

There    In that place of denial

Excuse me if I want to

Tell my honest truth

Oh yes I seem to have forgotten I don’t need your permission Or your approval

And People like you turn away Anyway From truth and pain too difficult to face Leaving those who feel deeply, all alone

So if you don’t want to believe me Just do me a favour And walk away Or let me turn upon my heel And close the door

How many that suffer from The mental illness Label Were really just souls Whose pain, abuse or trauma Was longing to be seen? Got buried under the cover of silence?

Do we see and describe the symptoms or address the cause?

Do we blame the sufferer for responding In a natural way To what was unnnatural in the first place.  Then deny the very truth of it?

Set yourself free From their prision

Truly beauty You don’t belong there

Don’t expect the scapegoater To ever see That truth

That the depth of you suffering and soul Allows you to see further than others do

Or deny how much they long to make you as shallow as they are

So they don’t feel any pain or have to admit wrong doing, ignorance, helplessness or confusion

You were never meant to be a raindrop

If life and hard experience gave you a soul

As deep as the ocean