Have you really healed?
Or simply learned the strength to carry your pain well
Has the burden become a blemish on your heart
Have you just applied cover up
Has silence becomes a place of comfort
Has the trauma truly left you
Healing is more than still breathing
It leaves you whole again
Brandishing scars but whole
Is your identity frozen in that moment
Anchoring you to a past self you can't be free from
Have you healed?
When people ask you "how are you?" do you tell them
Do you weep on your drive home
Does the melody of your soul sound melancholy
but sing sweetly from your lips
Have you healed?
Do you mark the days, months, and years since that day
Has every moment become a new anniversary
Has brokenness become a cloak around your personality
Is it possible pain has been twisted into a new body part
is breathing exhausting
Have the nightmares started again or perhaps they never stopped
Do the echoes of memories haunt your daily life
The sounds of tragedy playing your eardrums
Have you healed?
I only ask because
I believe you can be whole again
If you will but endure the suffering
Of healing
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Beautiful, Hidden Bear. Healing from our brokenness does take time, but we can, indeed, be whole again.
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