sometimesihatemycat

What if
There is no easy
Clean cut
Love
Only a clumsy
Reopening
Of scars
Accompanied
By a careful
Excision
Of those healing
Keloids
Gone awry
Maybe
A restitching
Of the self
Into a neater
More presentable
Demarcation
Of old injury
And in time
If you are lucky
You can bare
Your soul and skin
Again
Without the shame
Of scaring
Men

-me

~ by April on April 8, 2022.

Posted in Body, Humanity, Identity, Poetry, Women's Issues, Women's Rights
Tags: Anger, battle, Body, healing, Hurt, Keloid, Life, Love, Non-threatening, Poetry, Pretty, safe, Scar, Skin, Wound