Saturday, February 5, 2022

show me your scar

we like to show each
other our scars.
we attach the story to them
as we raise
a pant leg,
a sleeve or hem.
we tell what happened.
the fear, the pain.
the healing.
we press our finger against
the ribbed
hard flesh, the wound
healed, at last.
but we will
never ever forget.

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