If I should cry myself to
sleep
And sometimes feel hurt
And sometimes fear,
Please remember
that in that
We are brother
and sister.
No one walks
this life alone,
But we hold
each other’s hearts
In our hands,
Our souls
In each others’
keeping.
If I have
tasted the sting of death
And felt the
cold biting steel of fear,
Know that those
are as real to me
As your pain
and fear is to you.
I too have lost
possessions
I can never
reclaim.
My innocence,
My security,
Gone to never
return.
The flame still
licks at my heart
As it does
yours.
I don’t
want to lose more.
But see in me
my strength
That is there
If you look
deep enough,
As you see
yours
In you.
And forgive me
my fear
And the
destruction it still
Wrecks upon my
life
As you forgive
your own.
I’m
learning.
You slapped my
hand once
And I learned
To pull my hand
away.
Sometimes I
pull my heart away.
It has been
ripped in shreds
Too many times.
Too many nights
crying alone.
Strength has
many faces,
But sometimes
the fear remains.
Sometimes we
bury our hearts
Beneath walls
of iron and stone.
Sometimes we
forget
That it is in
adversity
That life is
born and lived.
Eden existed
only for a brief time
And then it was
gone.
But life
continues on.
We must build
our own Eden
Within the
shards of our hearts.