the deepest healing

Sometimes it was hard to believe

How much you loved me

A heart that has been bruised by hurt

Is a tender heart

That so often builds powerful defenses

Against the fear of being loved

Ever making us

That vulnerable again

Like a desert that refuses rain

Then we become hardened

And surely in the depths of feeling wounded

We must both learn to love

Who we are

And not to close ourselves

To new opportunities

For a tender love when it comes

When it finds us

Means the world

And we must not allow our past pain

To make us deny it

For me perhaps every single tear I cried

Was bringing me home

And finally allowing myself to feel

All of the longing I buried

As hard as it was

Was for me

The deepest

The truest

Healing