Challenge
Write about a scar, and it doesn't have to be a physical one. Get creative and surprise me!
Can’t Be Healed by Whiskey
The wails resounding in my mind
are etched deeply in my soul
buried deeper than scars on skin
enduring craters impressed on heart.
Mind scars hidden with scarves
marking dusty paths of
serpentine streets of the past.
I tear chunks of my layers
to erase the wounds
scar tissue is dying forlorn
but memory lives forever.
Crushed ice blisters
can’t be healed by whiskey
but I hide my scars in stars
where they are unseen
in blackest night.
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