My Love; Your Pain

There are times my love cannot reach you –

    cannot penetrate your hurt and pain –

        the self incrimination

                and the blame.

You doubt your worth

        and are overcome with shame.

You are so pure, so sensitive.

There is absolutely no excuse

why anyone as beautiful as you

should suffer –

        experience such abuse.

Those are the times I need you

        close to me

to feel only my love –

        hear only my voice.

I am your mirror –

        you have a choice.

You doubt who you are,

        you doubt your own worth.

Just look in my heart,

        see through my eye –

You are the light

        that shines in the sky.

I want my love to cover you,

        be the only thing you feel.

I want my love to comfort you.

        I want my love to heal.

See yourself as I see you,

        and know that only this is real.

My love is your blanket

        on a cold winter night.

Wrap it around you –

Let it warm and protect you

        and love you tonight –

        turn the darkness of doubt

        to the dawn’s early light.