Turning Towards

I am afraid but I am ready to face

The deepest depths of my inner most places

 

Like standing on stage naked

I’m vulnerable and shaking

 

But I’m letting you in

Through my barbed wire skin

 

I pledge to find you words in my voice

To forgive and forget for mistakes made in choices

 

Finding the bottom and hitting the rocks

Felt like the end but here’s where it starts

 

We slipped at arms length down a river of contempt

One bank a stonewall on the other a fence

 

But still we clung to our fragile raft

At times only memories put wind through the mast

 

Again through the rapids and back to the calm

Out to a turbulent ocean we swam

 

Washed up, depleted on a desolate land

Deserted but for many rocks in the sand

 

And as we began to turn over each stone

The strangest things happened to the landscape around

 

Before our eyes, things materialised; a forest, a garden, a castle of size

The grandest most beautiful world for our lives

 

While we worked at the raft to untie the ropes tangled

Releasing the parts that the journey had strangled

 

This place became filled with the greatest of wealth

The people we love and our own precious health

 

Its warmth radiates from us two at the heart

Us that life ‘s challenges can’t tear apart

 

A fortress, a power, a force to behold

With walls built to last, a place to grow old