This place is this –
I know it is
If you let yourself feel
You’re gonna get hurt
but if you don’t let yourself feel
you’ll never know love.

((Here even pain
becomes part of beauty)

It isn’t an easy place
I know it isn’t.
All that lives, struggles
trying to find a way
to connect, to survive
a teeter totter
of hope and despair
of giving up, of going on

Someday I hope to know the way
the way I find will be my own.
I’m still picking out sign posts
In glimpses from friends –
in their trusting eyes,
their searching eyes.
One honest look from another
Breaks — and opens — my heart.

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