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The Healing Time
Finally on my way to yes,
I bump into all the places where I said no to my life
all the untended wounds
the red and purple scars ...
those hieroglyphs of pain
carved into my skin, my bones,
those coded messages
that send me down
the wrong street
again and again
where I find them
the old wounds
the old misdirections
and I lift them
one by one close to my heart
and I say holy, holy.
~Pesha Joyce Gertler