Understanding

You will not understand me

Does it matter?

In time you will cast me out

Into exile

Because the truth I spoke

Upset your dualistic view

Of life and humanity

Doesn’t matter

I would rather than be alone

Than be in your company

There are those who will mock

Those who know

And try to speak of the terrorizing

And traumatizing truth

And so they will consign those souls

To torment

Walking away

Smiling and tutting and raising their eyes to the heavens

Or thanking God for their sanity

But who amongst them

Had the courage to sit in that dark place

With the wild and raging beast

And love it

Until it finds the courage to surrender

Its masks, disguises, place of refuge

And protection

And who instead will i

In denying the shadows and fragments of trauma

A voice

Continue to consign that suffering soul

To purgatory?