If you refuse to acknowledge me,
does that mean I do not exist,
I have no worth or value
past or present in your life?
If I greet you and you ignore me,
does that mean what we shared,
all those years had no worth or value,
that our time together had no meaning?
If you grimace when you see me,
does that mean I am beneath contempt,
and my very being is somehow
offensive and hateful to you?
I do not understand,
I fail to see how a smile,
a simple act of kindness,
would despoil your grand new life,
unless it would fracture
your carefully placed notions
set around you now as a fortress
to keep at bay the fear,
to protect against the guilt,
to shield against the questions
and reality you have never faced
as you yielded to the temptations
of the flesh and for them abandoned
the intentions of the soul.
Gray Bear in the Middle 
powerful!
The power of love and tolerance and acceptance heals the force guilt and denial and fear harms.
Love! Thank you for putting words (and beauty) to those horrible feelings… That image of the fortress being cracked by a smile rings so true… and I must make sure I don’t turn into one of those people, but stay loving and open and smiling
I find it’s much healthier for me to deal with such feeling by writing poetry, turning hurtful energy into healing energy by release in a creative act.