The Wounded Healer

All my mind knows is depth,
And my soul knows it needs to eat.
So she feeds it with fire,
And waters it down with greed.

A life sustainable,
One where I can breathe.
But the valleys I crawl through,
Don't compare to the flee.

My heart knows much pain,
And my soul knows it needs to be soothed.
So she wraps it up in grace,
And nourishes it with truth.

A life sustainable,
One where I can be.
But the trials I've lived through,
Feel tethered to me.

Poor soul.
So giving, so naive.
Healing lifetimes of love,
Lifetimes of grief.

Bridging the in-between.

Rescue me..
Follow me..
I will heal,
All of me.

Reviews

[Sami Khalil]

"Bridging the in-between.

Rescue me..
Follow me..
I will heal,
All of me."

A call for rescuing, for healing and for wholeness. A splendid poem...:)......

[KWP]

a perfect adaptation of a young seeker's life ... understanding where she needs to go but still traversing life's tribulations to get there ...still concerned with mistakes made, but lucky enough to realise that they were made at all, and yet its just another unique journey home ...

very well done xx

[Pax]

I simply love the rhymes you've done here. Its easy and gives more power to your words. the first stanza is really powerful, it tells a story beyond the dark journey of someone, painful and succumbing... and the rest tells how the process of healing starts - a life sustainable. That really is a nice line, and the repetition on it brings value and open heart to this piece... very expressive my friend.

[The Twin Arenas]

There's so much air in this.

[Christopher Robin]

Interesting...
Phonetic rhyme is just so much more deliciously malleable than perfect rhyme. This rolled off the tongue rather nicely.
Something in this confused me though, there seem to be three disparate but interconnected characters in this tale - unless I'm confusing the past/present tense switch within the poem. You mention "me/my", "I" and "She". I found it hard to keep track of who was telling the tale, and who it was about. Is it all the one person? Is this a tale told by the soul inhabiting a woman, or from a third person, describing the nature of a soul inside a woman?
This confusion aside it was a lovely read.

-Robin