Bear with this

Can you bear with this

Can you open your heart to hear the pain

Will you show understanding too

Of the mistaken shame

That lies beneath

Can you bear to understand

How it feels to be

So completely obliterated by the pain

Of anguish…lack of love

And arrows send with jagged tips

That tore apart a soul’s sweet innocence?

Can you bear the wounded beast

That now lives within

And will you show it tenderness?

Even as its rabid claws tear deeply

Into flesh

Can you bear

To truly kneel

And kiss the bleeding places

That it creates

Within the soul

Consigned to

A haunted lonely wilderness