Lost soul

I tried to find my way

Home via the road that followed

The tangled hedgerows

And the briar rose

Because I was well acquainted

With the ways of thorns

And my heart aches

With the remembering of

How truly lost and alone I was

In those darker years

When torn connections were all I knew

Lacking a solid enough foundation

Within my very skin and bones

To feel the truth

And so if I was lost

And now see all the tangled

By ways

And how absolutely I cut myself off

From comfort support and love

Will the burden of that knowing

Steal all my life and breath

When I see you struggling too

For not everyone knows exactly how it feels

To be this bereft

Or to have lost the way home

So utterly

To our true feelings

And the support of

A foundation of love

Within the Self