Chicken Soup For The Soul- Redone

Stone By Stone

I have a wall you cannot see

Because it's deep inside of me.

It blocks my heart on every side

And helps emotions there to hide.

You can't reach in, I can't reach out.

You wonder what it's all about.

The wall I built that you can't see

Results from insecurity.

Each time my tender heart was hurt

The scars within grew worse and worse.

So stone by stone, I built a wall,

That's now so thick it will not fall.

Please understand that it's not you,

Continue trying to break through.

I want so much to show myself,

And love from you will really help.

So bit by bit, chip at my wall,

Till stone by stone it starts to fall.

I know the process will be slow,

It's never easy to let go

Of hurts and failures long ingrained

Upon ones heart from years of pain.

I'm so afraid, to let you in.

I know I might get hurt again.

I try so hard to break the wall,

But seem to get nowhere at all.

For stone upon each stone I've stacked,

And left between them not a crack.

The only way, to make it fall,

Are imperfections in the wall.

I did the best I could to build

A perfect wall, but there are still

A few small flaws, which are the key

To breaking through the wall, to me.

Please use each flaw, to cause a crack,

To knock a stone off of the stack.

For just as stone by stone was laid

With every hurt, with every pain;

So stone by stone the wall will break,

As love replaces every ache.

Please be the one, who cares enough

To find the flaws, no matter what.

-Rachel N. Bentley