Not Every Hurt Can Be Healed

Not every hurt can be healed

not every ouch disappears

not every thing passes

not every song gets sung

No buts

or maybes

or otherwises

or elses

for not every ending is happy

if I have a gift it is this

this knowing 

this not flinching

this naming

and

when you come to the end

of your endings and 

not every fairy tale came true

if you want me to,

I can come up on your porch

and sit with you awhile

and not try to talk you out of the it

and we can sit with the it

in silence or in screaming

it will not care and neither will I

unless you need me to