All you endured

Some times my heart aches

As you tell me of all you went through

God knows humans can be

Unfeeling and cruel

too long ago turning a blind eye

to the sensitive side

they bolted the door

on the aching beast

and threw away the key

and when reminded of it

they just turn hostile

There is no fucking way to smile

in the face of this

because the pain of it all

lodges so deep,

even as we forget the way

to the worst of our

inner truth,

still is cries out to us

under the cover of silence

There is not a lot I can do

to heal your wounds

but I can be here to listen

when I have the strength

It’s just lately

the suffering of this sensitive side

seems to have become

tthe heaviest and most difficult of burdens

Today I cried

for the things denied

while realizing

that the path to here

just had to unfold the way it did

So now I open to hear you tell the truth

of what you endured

It did not happen to me and yet

I suffer for it with you too

for a time

At least until the powerful hold of it breaks

its paralysing strangle hold

over your wrestling spirit

body/mind,

heart and soul.