Healing

If hate is the cause
What is the cure
for a heart
that has been ravaged
and raped
and learned not to trust
the heart of another?

Love
Love is the answer,
the healing balm
that knows no limits
that can see beyond
the brokeness
that can instill trust
and faith in goodness
once again.

This love is
caring
believing
unselfish
patient and true.

This is the greatest gift
we can give one another.
It is the gift of healing.
It is the gift of wholeness.
It is the gift of integration
and maturity.
It is the gift of friendship.
It is precious,
It is priceless
And it is ours to give
or to withhold.
It is our choice.
So who is worthy
of this gift of love?

Do we decide?
Do we judge?
Who is worthy and who is not?

And who made us God B
to make such a choice
to judge another
as worthy or unworthy of our love?

And was I there
when their heart was afflicted?
or scourged?
or raped?
or stabbed?
or devoured
by the enemies of love and life?

And can I feel
what they feel?
What they felt?
No,
for I am not them
and they are not me.

So all the more reason
for me to keep my peace
on something I do not know.
For there is an honesty
in admitting that we do not know
nor can we feel the pain of another.

But there is a warmth and understanding
in a gentle touch
a gentle word,
a listening and caring heart.

This I can offer
This I will offer
This I will not withhold
for it brings strength
and comforts a grieving, suffering heart
telling them they are not alone.

It is time.
It is time for us to care
for the broken hearted
the bruised and battered heart
the heart that bleeds without ceasing
the heart that needs us.

Let us rise up in unity
in oneness and say
Enough!

Let us rise up and say
WE CARE.

Let us rise up and say
THIS IS NOT EXCUSABLE.
This is not acceptable
Justice shall prevail

and we shall learn
to love and care for another
and in this way
create a better world
to live in

IT IS TIME.


M.