Friday, January 1, 2010

Poem for Today

Hurt

I think of the scar on your wrist,

How you quietly hide it sometimes.

It’s an old injury,

Floating like a soft island on the smoothness of your skin.


Sometimes I try to take in my lips,

Encompassing it and making it mine,

Wishing I could be your balm.


But that is only the hurt I can see.


I am lost in describing you,

I think about the other scars you have,

The ones I will never know.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The balm of a lover's kiss can heal wounds unseen.