witnessing

darkness falls

as shadows crawl

along the floor

and i dissolve

beneath the flood

so much love

and longing

witnessing a world

of souls

desperate for connection

starving for attention

gentleness

and affection

it truly brings my heart undone

to feel the depth of this

the wound you bear

there was a time that despair

was the only language my heart could speak

until my soul fell into silence

then a river of love rose

and it held the truth of everything

as it washed my soul clean

of that utter loneliness

that runs so deep

within

the ache you feel

is truly never lost on me

I sense it deep inside my soul

too long ago we left behind

the loving mother

devaluing the precious gifts of

simplicity

and presence

for is not a tender love

as essential to the soul

as air

and as silently as they scream

our needs for nurture are never absent

as shadows fall

I embrace all of this in the silence

are these not r

the rumblings of a deep awakening

rising up

in a world so often starved

for love