So much darkness

So many close their eyes and hearts

And refuse to see the darkness

That we as a collective have lived through

Evolving as we have

From a painful past

Where the welfare of children and their protection

Was considered so unimportant

Where the harsh realities meant so often

Little ones went lonely and longing for love

Having to endure hardships we may never ever know

In our wildest dreams

When I think of the pain

Many souls lived through

Of the harsh experiences

That led to neglect

Of tender souls brutalised

Or opened to the advances of women and men

So shut down or wounded in their feelings

That they murdered the living soul half to death

It makes me want to cry for years

Shedding an avalanche of tears

But I also know that there is a movement growing on this planet

As the truth is finally being revealed

Of how the tender young feminine and masculine

Was bruised beaten betrayed or bled

All growing attempts to open up and shed

A painful history

And God hopes in years to come

We will be less willing to turn a blind eye

To the suffering of what is most tender and precious

Within a growing soul

So that light and life and love of truth

Can finally be nurtured

Fostering a new awakening on earth

Of those whose emotional blood was shed

In order that it could give birth to

A new and kinder way of being and relating

To our selves

And to each other