day 2: wound

poetry as medicine

Day 2, Wound.

To get to the healing, we have to notice we are wounded.

To treat the wound, we have to know what kind of medicine to apply, why, and how.

We have to listen to the wound to know what healing might be.

There may only be one entry point
for this particular wound, but that 
doesn’t mean healing can’t happen
from all angles, a holistic kind of
presence that doesn’t turn away
from every corner, every crevice,
every spot, moment, and time that the
piercing made it more difficult to
show up when things hurt the most.

When the wound is ready
to finally break open, scar over, and heal,
we turn our faces back to that entry point
and give thanks that healing doesn't happen
just like this or like this, but happens
the way you turn that same face toward
the sun and receive his light, the way you
become illuminated--scars, stories, and all.

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