Protection

You speak to me of

Protection care regard respect

These things I’ve never really known

For I am the one who just launched myself out there

Opening myself to a world

That so often was unkind

Without the necessary understanding

Consciousness

Or protection

But just because these things

So valuable and beyond price

Are not known to me

Does not mean they are not

What I long for

What I ache for

Could it be that the Universe is finally answering

A hidden prayer

And as I unfold my painful history

All you ever say is sorry

Giving it both a place

And a space to be

Will you ever ever understand

How precious this is to me

And how it makes my body feel

As though finally

All the rigid tense and hurting parts of me

Are dissolving

Disintegrating

Into an ocean of love