hold you close

There is a time our suffering holds us back

From love

A gravitational pull of sadness

That can take us under

When we lose the soul encompassing perspective

Of impermanence

There is pain we continue to cause ourselves

Even more hurtful

Than any wound inflicted

By the cold impersonal hand of fate

It lies in non acceptance

And also in avoidance of

The very thing we need to face

In order to free ourselves

Sometimes it is so hard to see

How we consent to become our own jailor

As well as the toxic cost

Fear can wreak

There is a saying the comes to me lately

When these overpowering feelings of unsafety

Beseige me

It is this

IN STILLNESS CONQUER FEAR

And so it is at these times

That I breathe into the suffering

As I hold you close in tenderness

Saying these words

I understand my darling

Please believe me your suffering was not in vain

I will hold you through this fear

Until the your tears end

Until our breath

And life energy

Returns