Utterly destroyed

Those who have never travelled that deep

Will ever understand the scars you bore

Will think that these are just wounds on flesh

Rather than experiences that cut you to the bone

So when they hand out their ‘advice’

You had better think twice

Before you absorb the pain

Their shallow stance ignites

In you

For those who souls suffer so deep in this world

Are not the ones that are insane

In bearing wounds

That are just an indictment

Of how far we have strayed

From nature and nurture and beauty

In a world were so much of what really destroys

Is considered urbane

Who would see it as a sign of anything worth hoping for

To have lived through such a shattering

And not been almost utterly destroyed?