Emergency Shelter

I can feel your tears like acid

on the inside of me

Your open hands begging for

someone to hold them in love

You are so well groomed

You don’t know how lucky you are

to be breathing

~

I hear one hundred and one reasons

they deserve to be forgiven

Their brokenness was not your fault

Their brokenness is not a good reason

Their brokenness is their responsibility

You could never save them

They don’t want to be saved

~

And then you whisper another atrocity against you

~

I am not an unkind person

I see their value and I pray they choose right

To set you free

To do the work to be free

to each of you finding the love inside yourselves

So maybe you might find

the person that helps you breathe

instead of threatening your life

~