Sitting with shame can suffocate life, but sitting in solidarity with someone in soul talk can break its control.
It’s there if you want to hear it. A sneaky, whispery voice from the past.
You hear it in others. They may have said nothing directly to you, but it’s there. Shame is a shadowy character.
It hides in the corners, and under the floorboards. It creeps around trying to be unnoticed.
But you can always guarantee, if given a prod, it will come out and haunt you down.
Shame splices into your soul that you are flawed. Actually, worse than that, it’s more like ‘YOU ARE A FLAW, A MISTAKE, AN UGLY WASTE OF SPACE.’
Shame would never say, with objective honestly, that you have flaws. It always says You are a flaw.
So we sit on a park bench with shame. Like old man or woman, critical of everything you do, they sit next to you mutter reminders.
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