to Stay There

This is it.

This is what you need. 

All you need.

And where you stay.

This is where you live

In that minute

Where you’ve felt it.

All the shame on your shoulders taken away.

All the blame removed and the heartache softly touched.

And the joy in the cleanness.

And the floor hitting gratefulness,

of an unknown tenderness

           holding you until you stop squirming away.

           holding you until you heal.

           holding you until 

No words

And no deed,

And no winter

And no wounds

can define or deface you

again.