if I show you deep within me
will you tread with utmost care
and treat in gentle confidence
the secrets you find there:
for few can make that journey
to a fragile heart laid bare
and not themselves be changed
by what they see

excerpt from “deep within”

What if instead of snatching truth we took time to hold it gently?

What if instead of listening, one eye on the clock, we immersed ourselves in another’s story?

What if instead of holding back we gave ourselves, heart, mind and soul?

What if – and it is too fearful a question not to ask – what if we travel through life never really connecting? Never really making sense of each other or ourselves? What if we never really understand?

To be among the “few” to “make that journey”. To discover the “few” to be many. To be changed by what we see. A wish. A hope. A prayer.