Where it dwells

I will dwell in the sunlit spaces

Even when the world grows dark

In the coldness of rejection

I will wrap these arms of love

Around my hurting self

I will listen to the pain

That woke in me

With the hurtful cutting words

Another spoke

But only long enough

To love myself anyway

What help will it bring

If I cling

To the torment another brings

I need just enough of it

For awakening

For light is most revealed

When darkness is seen

And shame is expunged

From our very depths

By shining the light of awareness

Upon the hidden spaces

Where it dwells