The scar is wound and healing.

The scar is flesh and memory.

The scar is past and present.

We are a people of scars.

The world is broken; broken things are sharp; sharp things cut; cuts are wounds.

As a people of scars, we too are broken.

Yet...

I live a life of scars,

so small as to be invisible,

like the slivers and shards and fragments of shrapnel—broken and sharp—

that seared them into the fleshy bits of my me.

A life forgotten

Eroding against the incremental scratch of time

Like a lonely obelisk in the desert

Graven with images

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She lies. Then the sting. Now the ache.