Healing Words

Her words were mumbled unprovoked and put him through the grinder minced they were tearing apart they hurt like a dagger so he finally knew where his heart was dismembered as it stood still one sentence then silence No stream no consciousness emotion arrested a world destroyed broken shattered He picked up the pieces the fragments shards of an ugly mosaic coloured in black The cutting edge of glass penetrated into frozen blood in icy veins turning tattooing engraving the twisted knife chopping torturing where passion kindness love had once been the messenger grinning at the grisly gristle ground to the core With surgical precision her scalpel incised at the flesh scarred in a flash razor wire ligatures asphyxiating suffocating mortal wounded lost mindless soul Denervation ensured neurochemical transmitters flowing into nothing a wide open schism fissures fission exploding with nowhere to venture a road not yet travelled Blessed in disguise of disaster her words grew into an unlikely story of hope of a mixture of memories retold new pathways narration novel meaning of words No more mill stone weighing the rope round the severed necklace of horror he found undreamt off passion with a new soulmate and lover a poet tree in motion Weaving kindness now sensual emotional reason scribed on paper fantasy clouds written on dreams healing momentum of moments nights and cinnamon bark their sizzling skins their touches feelings new found beauty make love and make loving and making love with words and with lived meaning worthwhile again 16th June 2016