Scarbleed: Closed, yet Open, Wounds#

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 4             SCARBLEED
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 8          do wounds heal?
 9          do wounds heal?
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11          quite convinced
12            that ain't near
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14          yet I'll never
15            yield to fear
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17          will it come
18            distant year
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20          do scars bleed?
21          do scars bleed?
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23          seems they do
24            seems so indeed
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28        — Jayson Salazar Rodriguez 
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30          Sunday, August 14, 2021   
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Commentary#

While experiencing traumatic circumnstances it is not uncommon to ask oneself whether the feeling of unease, desperation and sorrow will eventually pass. As impermanence[1] would have it, suffering passes eventually in order to give room to other, not necessarily pleasant, feelings and experiences. Scarbleed is a poem about the aftermath of intense pain. When sorrow has passed and wounds have allegedly healed can, and do, scars bleed?

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Footnotes#

ℹ️ I originally put an alternative, less polished, version of this poem on Instagram.

Epictetus: Decide, Do, Become   Seneca: We Suffer more from Imagination than Reality