Last night I cried.
It all became too much; the constant pain,
The loved ones who have died,
The dire gloom and doom from every side,
The heavy chain
Of trauma I have dragged about for years.
Decades of fears -
Of failing, falling, fear itself - rushed in
And overflowed my fractured dam with tears
That long had been
Held tight
And you were there;
You held my sob-wracked shoulders, stroked my hair,
Sat with me in the night,
And when the air
Filled with the scent of hope, the hint of dawn
You cheered me on.