My heart feels your heart

My heart feels your heart

In this moment of tenderness

As I reach towards you

My being senses your unspoken grief

As it lays sleeping below the surface

Of all the words you cannot say

My self senses the healing in you

Taking place

Over the time

The learning to live with difficult things

Life threw your way

As I understand

That before

I could not really see you at all

Beyond my own thwarted needs and projections

But now I honour the truth of who you are

Someone separate yet connected to me

Who also suffered

Someone who shares the familial threads

That bind but also loosen

As we learn more gentle ways

To reach for each other

To stay connected

To express love