Slightly edited version of
fishfude's latest poem (because I think I am a better editor of his work than he is):
My hands are covered
In burns I got from you.
Every acidic tear of yours I caught
Palm up
Before it hit the ground
The scars up to the elbow aren't from you.
They're for you.
Every last one.
I have them because
I always want to remind myself
What it's like to bleed on the inside.
I never want to forget
The pain beyond exquisite
Which can only come
From mind ravaged
More than your broken, battered body.
The scars remind me
That you were real.
- the reality that made me
What I am.
I do not wish you death.
Live.
Live in my mind forever.
One day
When my bloody tears
Have stained your hands
The way your salty tears
Have stained mine,
Then I will take your hands in mine,
And scar to scar
We will walk in waves
And cleanse each other.
BTW, I'll be doing that story challenge this week.