Turn around and walk away

So I don’t see you cry.

The only way to be okay

Is to run away and hide.

 

Make sure you don’t come back

Or open up your door

Until you’ve found your mask

And tied it tightly as before.

 

Paint your heavy heart with laughter,

Don’t let the cracks show through;

What’s really inside couldn’t matter much

To anyone else but you.

 

Don’t let me see the things

That hurt you the most.

If you share your burden

You’ll only burden us both.

 

But wait.

 

Don’t you know that love

Ties two hearts together?

And that if one is bound,

The other, too, is fettered?

 

Don’t you see that love

Has its own price to pay?

If I am to share your joy

Then I must share your pain.

 

And if you build walls to protect me

From the brokenness of your life,

Perhaps my heart will not break,

But slowly, it will die.

Welcome to this blogspace. My name is Sophia - I'm glad you're here. This blog is meant for shared reflection, a place where we create together, in the spaces between words, a more meaningful experience of the arenas in which we live. I seek to write with wisdom and inspiration - to see the world spontaneously and let its colors drain honestly through my pen. I am a writer who does not close the gaps. Instead, I seek to create gaps that are windows - to prick, as it were, holes in the sky, that we might peer through the stars. I would practice, with you, surrendering the completed picture of self, that, free to see each other's humanness and ourselves more humorously, we might experience the ways we complete each other's pictures. Thank you for participating in conversation with me - for creating more whole images of the highways, homes, mountain ranges, park benches, ministries, and workplaces where we live and become. The comments section of each post is space to verbalize the shapes, images, thoughts, or reflections that emerge for you in the empty spaces between the words in these posts. Always, I value hearing from you. Welcome! May you be blessed with hunger; may it guide you to food that satisfies.

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