Communal Pain Brings Healing

Something I’ve noticed in the past several weeks
As watch other people and bear witness
Are the incredible depths that everyone is hurting
With feelings of hurt, loss, and worthlessness
It isn’t a mood or a fleet passing fad
More a true nature of us in reality
We are all feeling pain carved into our souls
Leaving us bleeding, void, and empty

Imagine with me if you will
The scene of a great ship at sea going down
All the passengers around you are drowning
But you feel like you are the only one who is around
The only one falling, the only one cold
All you can see is you are about to go under
Not knowing that there is a whole ocean of people
Tossed in the water from a ship gone asunder

There should be no competition amongst us
To see whose pain is greater than whose
For we all have the scars of the battles we fight
Some we win and some others we lose
The best way we can move through our hurt
Is together one step at a time
We can lean on each other for understanding and strength
Bringing peace and rest to our minds