The cut that bled

Mixed up

There are here inside me

Thoughts of things

That hurt

As well as those I never chose

But never the less

Met along the road

On the journey

To myself

Where do we find peace

In the midst of all of these

Difficulties?

Things we longed for

Rarely came to pass

Things we wanted

But lost the way to

When fear possessed us so completely

We did not even dare to try

And so we often fell

Into that deep dark well

Of helplessness

But sometimes falling is the only way

Sometimes we fall to rise

And must cry deep tears

Before we can ever find the strength

To smile again

Despite the pain

And then one day

Laughter just surprises us

Reminding us of the truth

We were never the centre of this world

We wished to arrange itself

So as not to cause us further pain

Instead we were

The cut that bled

The wound that opened

Into truth