Let me tell you

Listen to my heart a little while

Let me tell you of the things that hurt

And let me tell you that your pain

Also matters to me

In a world where it often seems far easier

To lash out

When all our inarticulate speech of the heart

Keeps us prisoner inside the story

Of a world that only meant to do us harm

We lose the way toward connection

As the power of our truth

Remains strangled inside our throat

And our heart constricts in its beating

The this terrible litany of pain

Is all we hear

Repeating and repeating

Like the roaring of a thousand storms

Between our ears

But if we could

Just sound this out

In a way that is not too loud

In a way that lacks the power

To terrify others

Just as we were once terrified

Then perhaps there might just be a little chance

That we could find each other

In the spaces between the words we sound

In the echoes within which our pain resounds

As we open our hearts and wounds

And find a way to finally lay

Our shield and weapons

Down