A gash or bruise, scars and scrapes

across the skin. You feel it deeply.

It resides within.

The process of pain: difficult to

comprehend, harder to explain.

It is always there.

Physically, mentally, intimately; cause 

or effect unknown, even unnoticed.

We try to keep it hidden.

Excuses of misfortune sublimate

the anger. Emotions raw and ragged.

Our time. Our wounds.

You do not see what we feel. How

can we heal when we won’t even

acknowledge the source.

© 2024 j.g. lewis