the simple fact of being human

“It is helpful to remember that part of shame’s power

lies in its ability to isolate, both within and between minds.

The very thing that has the power to heal this emotional nausea

is the reunion of those parts of us that have been separated.”

Curt Thompson

This pain

Maybe something

I must live with

I long for the hoped for reprieve

That you will arrive

And I will be freed

From this legacy of pain

And sometimes harm is easier to feel

Than the opening of a being and heart

To experience the ravage of

The things that cut

And in cutting led us to bleed

Slowly

Quietly

Deeply

Internally

But this afternoon as I read your words

I was more relieved

Than disturbed

For you had the courage to open to express

The painful truth

And that to me is proof

Your soul is healing

For in tasting pain

It knows the taste of love

Lost

And longs to find the way back

To that place where

All the shades of its expression

Find a place

No longer bound into imprisonment

By all of these

Deep feelings of shame and disgrace

That isolate us from

The simple fact

Of being human