Vulnerability

July 28, 2008 – 4:18 pm by admin

By Terri Ann Laws

If I could tell you all my fears and get it off my chest,
If I could tell you what I hate and what I love the best,
If I could fully clear the air and really speak my mind,
With total, open honesty, the truest you could find

If I could only trust and know that all was safe to say,
If I could bear my deepest truth with nothing in the way,
If I could tell you everything with nothing left unsaid,
And tell you what is actually both in my heart and head

Then we could get as close as ever human beings could be
We�d reach a depth of knowing that would surely set us free
Of all the pain and doubt and hurt that keeps our worlds apart
And keeps us both defensively protecting self and heart

Intimacy is a need that human beings all crave
But the risk is so extreme, and few are quite that brave
We�d rather suffer endlessly this empty, hungry need
Than suffer vulnerability, attempting this to feed