Fortress
Why do we
Not ask for help?
When we thought
We may be just alright.
Do we feel alright?
When we had done
Everything on our own
And by ourselves
Without any help,
Without others too,
Nobody but our own;
Why would we
exclude ourselves
and exclude everyone?
When all we wanted
was love and support?
And we would
Cry for help.
No one would
Hear us,
Nobody would
Show up,
To help us;
We then become
A hermit crab,
A porcupine,
A lone wolf,
Solitary
behind those walls,
Which are hard
to trespass
to reached over
and love.
But love never hurts,
What isn’t hurts.
We then need
To tear down,
The walls,
The barriers,
And barricades,
Where we had built
Within
And
Against
Ourselves.
Tear down
The walls,
The barriers
We have built,
against love,
against ourselves,
to let love in.
Realized that
We are humans,
Not islands,
We are social creatures,
We need each other,
For social support,
And connection.
Vulnerability
Allows us to
Allow others
Into our lives
To help us
Than to shut
Everyone out.
Why shortchanged
ourselves
Of love?
When we claimed
That love is beautiful?
Love never hurts,
What isn’t hurts.
A poem written for the porcupines, walls and lone wolfs who may have trust issues letting other people into their lives. To those whom heart was open, but betrayed and temporary sealed to protect themselves.
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