By GalaWench
Date: 6 March 2000
Comfort Zone
I want to draw away the hurt,
undo every bad thing you have ever known,
erase the sadness,
ease the spirit
and wrap myself around you
like an soft warm quilt.
I want you to lie
head close to my heart,
listening to the beat
till you sleep like a child,
who fears only the unreal monsters,
and the shadows that can never really hurt them.
No shadow put the marks on your soul,
welts tender now---even with the passage of years.
The poison goes deep---
and I have seen you writh
when it burned you.
I know you will never heal,
never be truly whole
until the wounds are purged,
the cuts are cleaned
and the edges sealed.
I love you too much to watch you ache,
and too much to let you stand alone
trying for brave
when your heart
is calling for five minutes
in the comfort zone.
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