When I am angry?

When I am angry will you listen?

And can you hear

Even deeper than the words?

Does my rage scare you

Can you bear to testify to the fact

Of how terrifying and powerless it felt

Never to be understood or seen?

It truly is possible and okay for me now

To hold my hurting self tenderly

To ask my inner child

Hey baby what do you need?

What is too much for you right now to cope with

In a world that sees how kind you are

And longs for some of that?

Know for now that you are not God

Neither do you have an unlimited fund of care

To give to the world

There are pains that you can never heal

There are hurts that you cannot fully ease

There is trouble that you cannot escape

And yet you still have value

It lies in the full acceptance of who you are

Never only of what

You do or give

Or do not give or do!