Sacred story

Offered up freely,
  let out of where it resided,
    safe behind the wall, until
      circumstance has freed it.

Receive the story,
  the vulnerability of another,
    hear the words as they come,
      let them wash us clean, new.

Bear one another's
  burden offered up, for this
    time and place may not be here
      for long and we will have let go.

Let go of what could have
  been healing, strength for one
    another in a coming day, and
      missed the holy ground we stand on.