Rejection

Rejection

Rejection.  It hurts.
It cracks your soul.
It burns your heart
until nothing is left.

But just one?
Just a single rejection?
Can it possibly do that to you?
No, it cannot.

To burn a heart
and destroy a soul
it takes dozens
dozens of rejections

But even that is not enough.
Laughter and ridicule
following rejection
hurt the most.

Then, you shut out the world.
You build up emotional walls.
You do whatever is necessary
to protect yourself.

To protect yourself from the pain.
To never experience it again.
To keep your heart and soul intact.
To protect, but not to rebuild.

You build the barrier to protect yourself.
You never rebuild yourself.
You let your heart sit in misery.
Broken almost beyond repair.

The ashes of your heart
and the pieces of your soul
lay on the ground forever.

And one day you get tired of it.
You decide to rebuild.
As you begin to rebuild
you let the walls you built crumble.

The walls degrade and slowly fall.
As the rebuild commences
you start to feel better.
You feel like you can take on the world.

So you decide to try again.
You decide to let yourself feel again.
You find someone who arouses your feelings.
You talk to them and ask them that one question.

And then it happens again.
You are rejected and ridiculed for your feelings.
The pieces of your heart and soul break into more pieces
and more pieces and more and more and more and more pieces.

And then what's left?