What Is Torn

** What’s Torn ** What’s been torn off or away may be a recurring theme — of dreams or memory — that nags, popping up unexpectedly to recall or, for dear losses, again grieve… The things thieved from life — as divinely conceied, like the Amazon forest’s trees — don’t leave, but remain in a spectral reality… What’s been torn away may similarly refuse to leave — like my calve, cut from my body, will scream, sending phantom pain in suffered agonies… What was seized from me on that mournful day, — sculpted by dancing ballet for a decade, stayed as I went from anestesized to awake into a daytime nightmare without any escape… When life sends us to dire places, where hopelessness would subjugate us, God will guard our souls and grace us with a strength: resounding to the soul… Left ragged, like having my health fail in reaching goals, I will feel my heart wail near breaking, but I refuse to let my faith pale …believing the prayers of heaven will entail blessings to help all God’s children prevail. ————————— ((c) s.y..eslinger 3/2024 **an addition to “On Phantom Pain” poem still in progress at this time