You deserve love

You deserve love

You long for the tenderness

Of a caring touch

So be the one

You can depend upon

To be there for yourself

Open your heart to all you feel inside

Resisting our pain

Takes us nowhere in the end

When pain is asking something of us

And still we turn away

And even hate ourselves for feeling it

Blaming ourselves for not doing right

Or being good enough

But what if the truth goes deeper

What if all of this pain has a reason

And is asking you to listen in

And all you do is hate on it and turn away?

Love is waiting in the allowing

Love is present in the listening in

And the being with

Did God just make you this worthless

Broken thing

Or did God give your soul this pain

So that you could know the ache

Of lovelessness

And awaken to the truth

That you deserve love