Let Yourself Lose - Inspirational Poem

You've not felt pain

Till you've let yourself feel.

You must let the pain in

Before you can heal.

Let it crumble you, crush you,

Destroy your soul.

Piece by piece,

Till it consumes you whole.

'I've faced pain', you think.

But what you've really done,

Is block it out with numbness.

And you think that you've won.

Then it happens again.

And you think that you know

How to win this once more,

Since you've done it before.

So you pull out your shield,

And stay safe behind.

You hide in the cave that

the pain cannot find.

Running the other way is

easier than to face it.

But to truly find peace

You have to embrace it.

You'll feel it break your bones

And crush your thin skull.

Till all that is left of you

Is a withered empty hull.

You'll wonder how you fell

For pain and its tricks.

But as you walk away broken

You'll see yourself fix.

You'll be glad you welcomed it

And drew down your shield.

This time you didn't switch off;

This time you healed.

You'll be glad you went to battle

And didn't call truce.

Because;

You can only win over pain

When you let yourself lose.