What was!

What was

Has been and gone

Even as its disturbing tendrils

Pull my being here and there

Leaving their traces deeply etched

Beneath my surface

Do those we chose to engage with

Arrive by accident

Or did our soul summon them up

Like vapours rising

From a stagnant pond

Of challenging history

And if so

How open am I to finding m

My hidden faces

Reflected in your mirror?

Let then my soul be compassionate

But awake

Do not let me fall asleep

And when I do

Send me the dream

That with its healing symbol

Will open my heart and mind

To buried wisdom

Let me forget too sometimes

How much you hurt me

What good will holding onto this pain

Do

After all

As unconscious as you were

Was not your wounded fractured soul

Hurting

Too