Monday, June 17, 2024

Branded Sept. 29, 2013


The scars remain

the same wound

not quite healed right,

 not the mark f Cain

it is not brother or sister slain,

They just thought

It would live forever,

Stunned at how early

It perished,

her fingers clinging

onto the empty air

 it left behind,

her chest bearing the scars

that bleed again

Maybe pain is better

 Than feeling nothing,

scars only remind her

 of what she had and lost,

she can’t get rid

of the mark

even if she’d wanted to

needing something to fill

 the vacuum that consumes her,

 she bleeding on the inside,

still wounded even when

time says she should not be,

the mark of it

 pressed into her

like a cattle brand,

signifying who it is

who once owned her


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