Have you touched any one?
Has any one touched you?
How deep did you touch another?
How deep did someone touch you?
If you touch someone deeply the other changes
If someone touches you deeply you don’t remain the same
We rarely touch deeply
Rarely does someone touch us so deep
We are afraid to touch someone deeply
Because if we touch deeply
The other changes and we too change
We are afraid to let ourselves touch deeply
Because if someone were to touch us deeply
We wouldn’t remain the same
There is a fear deep within us
About touching and being touched
When we really touch someone
And let someone touch us
We open ourselves completely to the other
And the other opens up to us
It is rarely that we open ourselves to the other
And that the other opens himself to us completely
What are we really afraid of?
What will happen to us if we open ourselves completely?
What are we afraid to touch deep within us?
What do we dread to find in the opening?
We will find our unloved wounded self
Hiding behind many walls that we have created
When these walls are broken
I feel very insecure and vulnerable
It is unbearable to face my naked self
I shudder to look at the condition of myself
Behind the layers of protective shells
It is frighteningly painful to look at them
I don’t know what will be left of me
I hate to admit that I may be nothing
George Kunnath