once you've been wounded
cut to the core
endured the dark nite of the soul
yet kept your heart open
vulnerable
then and forever more
you feel others pain
as your own
you bleed and continue to bleed
every traumatic event is a re-play
of your own wounding
deep pain is transformed into deep empathy
empathy evokes Sacrifice and thus, healing
for it is thru Sacrifice that the Holy Spirit is summoned
and only Spirit can heal the world