Joyful Ruins

It seems as though

my pain shouts inside me

and as I speak it

to those who harm

I thought they would hear

but they do not

so I start to shout louder

I start to cry

to scream

but they do nothing

and I begin to see

they cannto hear

or see

they are deaf and blind

so no amount of shouting

will make them pay attention

and it only exhausts me

yet His ear I have

He leans down

He hears me whisper

He hears me shout

His loving eye upon me

He cannot ignore

My walls before Him

My name on His hands

He is never deaf or blind

He will never ignore me

and I am learning

His attentiveness

is enough

I wrote this after a long season of hurtful behavior around me. I spoke up and I did my best to voice the things that were hurting me. It was like all my words fell on deaf ears and yet, I learned God always hears me and that ended up being enough to see me through the hurt and to see me out of it.