Holding it In

Through your eyes

the body releases pain.

Lift the lid from the well within,

let the stagnant water flood from your gut.

Let it rise, let it fill your chest.

It will not drown you.

                               Your pain asks to be free

                                from the fear that's holding it in.

Don't gulp down the lump in yout throat -

the swell of your first cry, since.

Don't blink away the tiny pools

before the great flood.

Let it rise, let it leave the body.

It will not sweep you away.

                             Your pain will show you how

                             if you'll let it.