Never Rub Salt Into the Gash

Never rub salt into the gash,
Making not bad things even worse;
Say sweet inspiring lines instead
That are found in the poet's verse.

Never let difficult status
Turn into harder condition;
Nor allow the painful feeling
To become damaged emotion.

Do not ever accentuate
The negative circumstances;
Neither aggravate the problem,
Nor intensify the cases.

Let not the upset mind and heart
Get more frustrated and angry;
Allow them not to bring the love
To oblivion of harmony.

Never add harm to injury,
Never hurt the wound, cut, or slash;
Never neglect the shattered soul,
Never rub salt into the gash.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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