The only cure

I am me

Often carrying a tender wound inside

That was for so long a deep void

An aching echo

Of unrequited longing

For you to see me

And promise

You would never leave me

 

And past lovers sensing it

Of course so often left

And my ache grew stronger

As my longing and wound just deepened

Until I had no alternative

But to dive into the void

To embrace it

To become it

To let it speak to me

Of what my hunger was

How far it lay back

And its roots in past generations

And so you my ancestors called to me

Asking for recognition

And I said this wound will end here

Now with me

For in the grieving

I will know it

And in the feeling of it

I will finally find the courage to release it

As forgiveness rises up like a blessing

As I realise the only cure

Is

Was

Always will be

Only love and a desire to reconnect

Heart to heart

Soul to soul

In complete honesty

With the world

And with my tangled history