Vulnerability

When your vulnerability opens

You will understand how powerless you were

Do not expect to be applauded

For giving expression to this truth

Once you were a child

You did not choose to be born

You had no control at all

Over whether love was expressed or withheld

But there is a healing now

That you can embrace

When you chose to face the truth

Of how vulnerable you really were

Then

Sadly you will begin then to see

How many and society

Choose to scapegoat the vulnerable

And those who bear the scars

For wounds no longer visible to the eye

It takes a strong heart

And so much courage not to turn away

To look this darkness in the face

So do not expect to feel a part of the crowd

For some the journey leads into years of darkness

And this is not a society

That really chooses to honor

The honest path

Or show empathy to the victims

Who bear the scars

Those shamed, abused, betrayed and abandoned

Who were once so

Absolutely vulnerable at heart