I need you

I need you

You are important to me

I want to set my wounded spirit free

Like a bird too long caged

That longs for air

What will it help to allow this

The ongoing weighting down of despair

Seeing myself as only the victim

When really the honest to God truth

Is that we are all still evolving

I need your love

You are important to me

God knows we both bore the scars

That were entirely ancestral

And you suffered losses too

Losses you were not allowed to feel

And had to bury

So now if at times

I seem to hold all of you memories

Let me show you love

For as long as I live

I will always extend an open hand

In deep compassion

For I know that loneliness of a soul

So deep

That lost its way

Unable any more

To feast upon its inner beauty

And the truth is

I really do love you

The deepest truth is that

It only hurt for so so many years

To be denied

Your love

Your understanding

But then was it ever really

All about me

Anyway?