Aching

Aching so deep

Your weary body finally fell

To touch the barren ground

A wasteland wilderness

Littered with the lost souls of children

And their pain

Neglected forgotten over generations

Waiting to be reclaimed

 

But when your mind is tortured

Then how is it possible to see

The truth that

How you ache

Was never your total responsibility

 

Who will come to lift you up

To open deeper vision

Of an inner eye

That casting its glance backward

Sees the path of mistaken circumstances

That led you to here

And finds through suffering

The power to forgive?

 

Aching body

Please find a place to rest

Learn to speak those soothing words

Your soul most longs to hear

Do not abandon yourself uttterly

Upon that fallow ground

For deep inside

There are lost seeds

Just waiting to be found

Destined to be planted

Tended and lovingly nurtured

In far far richer

And fertile ground