Let me help you heal

Let me help you
Embrace the ocean’s
Age-old longing
To wash away
Your sadness

Let its waves
Metabolise
This deep
And infinite
Sorrow

I’ve seen what Pain does
When left to live
Inside a human

How it
Sculpts the fibres
Shifts the chambers
And alters the rhythm
Of a beating heart

How it
Rewires the neural pathways
And reshapes the highways
That help the body
To feel whole

How it
Takes your spirit hostage
And suffocates your soul

Roar, cry, jump, shout
Paint, write, dance, fly

Hand your pain
To the earth now
She can take it
Understands it
More intimately
Than you think

Give this suffering
The freedom
Its creators
Never let you have

Give this shame
The words
That terrible silence
Told you
Could never be spoken

See that dove
Flying high above
A delicate crescent moon

Watch this star
Shooting through the night
Breaking up the heavy darkness

Touch that leaf
Sailing peacefully
Upon treacherous waters

Feel that sun
Asking us to slow down
And sit with it
In silence

Let yourself
Be touched
By Life’s many gentle longings
To help you heal.