I want to comfort the world

I want to comfort the world,  but the world does not accept me.  It does not want the gentle warnings of a mother,  who can then comfort you...

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Rules of Heartbreak 101


They say if you don’t heal what hurt you 

you’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut you

They don’t tell you that you’ll bring the storm with you everywhere you go

even if they have already been fighting to contain their floods

how your lack of emotion and drive has expanded droughts, past any chance of recovery

That your state of denial blinds you from the fact that this game you keep playing has ended as soon as you tried to make the first move 

They say if you don’t heal what hurts you

you’ll bleed on those who didn’t cut you

that only time can heal

They don’t tell you band-aids don’t heal incisions,

that gaze doesn’t stop the crying

that pain killers aren’t the Mr. Clean magic eraser for life

They don’t tell you 

how healing is all about what you say, how you act, in your mannerisms

They don’t tell you that moving on is like taking one foot in front of the other in dry cement or getting out of a blizzard on foot

They say if you don’t heal what hurts you

you’ll bleed on those who didn’t cut you, but

never tell you that sometimes all the scares and bruises that those 

incisions left behind

seems to be all that you are and 

you’ll learn to love that,

handling the before and after on your walls like metal

nobody thought you’d make it this far



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