Show Your Wound
Photograph by: K. Alan Lewis
Show your wound with your own tenderness
Know that tossed decay will rot in dark seclusion.
Fear must no longer be the guest that hides within
Healing’s desire is gently knocking on your door.
Show your wound oh lovely soul
Not to me and not to them.
But show it now to your own kind beholding
That the light of love can mend its broken wings.
Your kindly benevolence toward your own humanity
Will bring a sudden transformation to that lacerated heart.
All are broken, deeply wounded, grieving in their beds
Oh may a kind beholding…come, and change all that.
~Viola M. Jaynes
That is a beautiful invitation, Viola.
Comment by SandyCarlson — November 30, 2008 @ 4:26 pm
I love it. There is a brokeness that you deal with, when you lose your spouse. And you have to learn to live your life around that brokeness. You just have to have the courage to go through each day, without living in the past.
Comment by Teri Pittman — December 3, 2008 @ 2:07 am
Teri, you are so often in my thoughts. I know it is not easy for you. Thank you for visiting me here. I will keep you close to my heart and in my prayers. I wish you a peaceful heart!
Comment by Viola Jaynes — December 3, 2008 @ 3:05 am
Excellent content here and a nice writing style too – keep up the great work!
Comment by Still Your Mind Now — December 10, 2008 @ 10:40 pm
Land on your site when I google search ’spiritual rejection’, thanks for great and sweet effort putting up this site, I enjoy it. I see that you don’t have anything up in the month of December, guess only those who are ’spiritual rejection’ would wonder around the internet searching for that piece of quietude land in this wonderful holiday season.
~ Grace
Comment by Grace Lim — December 31, 2008 @ 12:30 am
Grace, thank you for your visit here. I am sorry that you are feeling rejection in your life, especially around this time of the year. I know it can be particularly difficult for people.
Actually, I do have a post up for December called, “Christmas in the Orphanage” and a couple of poems.
I wish you an abundance of peace and love.
Comment by Viola Jaynes — December 31, 2008 @ 2:18 am