Healing Together

Friend, do not hide in fear
  or turn away in shame.
You can show me your wounds
  and share with me your pain.
Know you are not alone;
  I turn and do the same.
Let us stretch up and out
  like trees, together frame
A sacred space to look
  with gentle, friendly gaze.
Empathy and presence
  sustain our selves upraised.
Perhaps a graft will form
  with patience over days
Where both our wounds converge
  and bond in healing ways.

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Copyright © 2006 Dee Clark