"Healing the Heart"
The pain lingers.
The struggle for wholeness
Is certainly the one focus
That makes sense to me.
The absence of boundaries
Seems to prolong the grief experience.
Now I know the feeling of
The mixture of hatred and love.
Now I know the meaning of
Absence, loss, and powerlessness.
This mental pain
Has the same effect
As the physical pain
Of losing my own physical, actual self.
Awakened from a waking nightmare,
My anguished, desperate wish
For an unconflicted second chance
Is at last rejected.
The pain lingers.
The struggle for wholeness
Is certainly the one focus
That makes sense to me.
The absence of boundaries
Seems to prolong the grief experience.
Now I know the feeling of
The mixture of hatred and love.
Now I know the meaning of
Absence, loss, and powerlessness.
This mental pain
Has the same effect
As the physical pain
Of losing my own physical, actual self.
Awakened from a waking nightmare,
My anguished, desperate wish
For an unconflicted second chance
Is at last rejected.