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1slick_lady
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standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2002-06-23 03:58 AM



Permanent

I ask you
not to
touch me
there
I said
that it
hurt

but you
continued to
do it
and jelled
my blood
for your
dessert

when I
ask you
about it
you dismissed
it with
such ease

the painful
truth about
cuts is
they vary
with degrees

hurts now
have healed
and I know
just what
they are

they never
leave my mind
and when
I do
I look at
the scar


"The heart is the toughest part of the body, tenderness is in the hands." Carolyn Forche'

© Copyright 2002 Helen Chambers - All Rights Reserved
serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738

1 posted 2002-06-23 09:41 AM


Helen? Thank goodness, scars? are signs of healing...

the painful
truth about
cuts is
they vary
with degrees"

and? I can attest to this...scars SEEM insensitive--until someone sweet, kisses it.



Scary, huh?

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla
2 posted 2002-06-23 09:47 AM


1slick_lady
Good thought, good write, enjoyed

Rex Allen McCoy
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since 2000-01-30
Posts 2863
Sippin a Timmy's in London
3 posted 2002-06-23 09:51 AM


Sometimes scars turn to stretch marks

but then ... what do I know?

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