By kevin urenda, kluless70@hotmail.com
Date: 13 October 1998

In sensitive

I can be just like a nerve laid raw
by a knife of my own making
my own emotions used against me
in some secret plot to subvert my
outlook on this wonderful life

But there is a good reason to be
so vulnerable, so open

There is the hurt that is laid on me
because I trust too much
but the joy that fills my heart washes
the pain away, by remaining unguarded
I do not have to cling so tightly to 
the emotions that would make their slave

So giving is a good thing
when I am open also to what is returned,
for the response to my vulnerability 
can be untold treasure
that I would otherwise not discover
were I not so open, so sensitive,
so focused on awareness
of my own emotions 

An awareness I would never have
never even dreamed of
if not for having been loved by you