In the shadows

In the shadows you wait

Dreaming of rescue

From the one who will see deep inside your soul

But maybe really what you are needing

Is not rescue

But beholding

A fully embodied person

Willing to be real

To show up

A person grown tired and cold

From hiding in the shadows

And this reminds you of how you

Struggle just to be

A part of a life

Accepting of it on its own terms

Reminds you of how often you retreat in fear

And when the demand is made of you

By life to be real

Cower

Unsure if you are equal to the task

Or will be held or beheld by anyone

And in those moments

If you are being truly honest

Don’t you fear

That really all along

The problem was no body else

Really it was you?