ouchless

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

letting go of all of it

feel the shifting earth

painful wounds are sealing over

show their lack of worth

strange to touch a spot

that burns and screams with ache

to have touched it a thousand times

and drowned within its wake

then one day poke it with a stick

expecting bees and darts and acid

but instead I find a silence 

a stillness- my soul placid