A Call from Shore
You know them when you meet them.
You can't quite put your finger on how.
Its some kind of quiet, non intrusive, intent.
Genuine curiosity catches off guard.
There is something your subconscious can't help but see...
The curiosity itself is the intent.
They aren't seeking anything, from you, or of you.
It feels different, because it is different.
When someone just wants to understand you, and be understood by you,
That energy is damn near palpable.
When someone truly makes no judgements of you,
you realize how full of **** everyone else is.
You think of all the times what you told this one was used against you,
or how it changed the way that one treated you,
or the way it not so subtlety created distance... all on its own.
But then you meet someone who is only being drawn in by all of what makes up who you are...
not slowly moving out of arms reach.
Being shown true care, true love...
Being shown what a truly safe place feels like...
Is like suddenly realizing you've been swimming in the ocean your whole life,
And now finding solid ground beneath your feet.
How do you explain what standing feels like to someone who has been adrift at sea their whole life?
And that's when it hits you, what this person is truly showing you...
They've been here, standing on the shore, for who knows how long now.
They were once a drift like you... they had to be.
But they found land somehow, and what did they do with it?
They didn't put up walls, or try to hide it for their own personal utopia, No...
Instead they turned towards the ocean, the very same ocean they just pulled themselves out of,
And started calling as many people to shore as they could.
This epiphany becomes a marked moment in your life & on who you'll be from that day forward.
Because there is an unavoidable choice that this safe ground now quietly demands of you...
A choice that will be made for you if you don't have the courage to make it yourself.
Who Will You Be Now?
Will you be the one who starts building walls?
Or will you turn to face the water...
And Call to those still at Sea.
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