Scar-Like Healings

Scar-like Healings by Odin Roark Scar laden perfections Where life's training wheels balance One's child-like trust Adolescent-like daring Adult-like intemperance Scratches Bruises Broken bones History's incidentals heal easily While Challenges of the heart Stalemates of the mind Failure of one's dreams Make endurance the battle cry Invisible damages the struggle Protection of identity One's survival instinct The personified continuance At all costs How weary our consciousness becomes For Around the corner Lurks the underworld of lesions Trusting not the scars For finite as healing might seem There remains the lesson to be learned Time-released torment to be resolved One's fatal wounds burrow deep Ignoring the façade of mending Knowing all too well What remains buried Are teachings Damage never dies Anguish never vanishes The chameleon of pain Nullifies one's senses temporarily Rendering transient peace While fate prepares Tomorrow's pin prick Wishing one to live Not languish believing Scar-like healings Are real