alert and oriented times zero

what can be done, no, what can be said
when pain strikes so deeply that you lose all sense of orientation.
when life has chipped away at your very self with so much dedication
that you find one day, you are broken to pieces.
how do you regain heart when your heart is no longer beating.
how do you feel anything at all when you've been numb
for so long that you don't remember how to feel.
you think that healing, forgiveness, reconciliation, and love are great things-
in theory.
great things you yourself once possessed, and even exhorted.
but the gray, broken, painful place you now find yourself
has no use for these things.
you've been vulnerable for far too long.
who in their right mind would willingly throw off the mantle of self-protection- 
the anger, bitterness, coldness, detached way you've come to live- 
and leap naively into  
love.

what is there to say to one who has done no wrong; 
yet been so hurt, so abused, and feels all of this and more?
only God can save us from this.