Feel What We Feel
What if we gave ourselves the attention and care
we would to an injured child?
What if we looked at our pain and acknowledged it?
What if we showed it to someone we trusted, and said,
“This hurts. I’m bleeding.”
What if we offered each other acknowledgement of that pain?
“That does look like it hurts.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Do you need a hug?”
What if, in other words
we let each other and ourselves
feel what we feel
and held ourselves and each other close
till we felt better enough
to keep going?
~from Blessings for the Long Night: Poems and Meditations to Help You through Depression
