hurt heals
everyone talks about how healing hurts.
how it’ll take some time,
and some pain,
and mistake after mistake,
but you’ll be healed.
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what they don’t talk about is the hurt.
the pain.
the sorrow.
the anger.
the pent up feelings and wrongdoings.
~
they pretend it doesn’t exist,
that it doesn’t affect them
because they are healed.
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but that’s wrong.
that’s not right.
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everyone talks about how healing hurts
but not about how hurt heals.
because it does,
believe it or not,
~
hurt heals
and one day
the pain and suffering is worth it
and the feeling in all the dead parts returns.
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hurt heals
and i’m gonna be here when it does.
but not because of some dumb,
twisted,
‘in memoriam’ type shit.
i’m not doing this for him;
it’s not some charity in his memory.
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i’m doing this for me
because i want to feel.
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hurt heals
and i’ll be here when it does.
that’s not a promise,
that’s a threat.
About the Creator
l.j. swann
PA based aspiring author
i’m probably crying over an empty page
Twitter - @eeljeel
Comments (2)
i started going through old drafts on my laptop and found this gut punch lol. welcome to 04/06/2020…
Wow, this is deep and so insightful. And true - it heals and later the understanding comes; still hurts in the meantime though.