Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Keeping the arrow in 2015

like cupid

 I have taken a wound

 from my own arrow

 a self-inflicted piercing

 that went straight

to the heart impossible

 to draw it out

without doing even

more damage

would make it fatal

the devil in me

 who flung these arrows at others

 yet cannot recover when

 I flung one at myself

some things never heal

even when we think they do

we keep from festering

by keep the arrow as deep inside

 as it will go because

 having it

 feeling its sting

when I move the wrong way

 my heart beats fast

as to remind me

 that once there was something

 the wound

 the pain

the joy as well


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