The Healing Time - Pesha Joyce Gertler

Finally 

on my way to yes

I bump into

all the places

where I said no

to my life

all the untended wounds

the red and purple scars 

those hieroglyphs of pain

carved into my skin, 

my bones,

those coded messages

that send me down

the wrong street

again and again

where I find them 

the old wounds 

the old misdirections 

and I lift them 

one by one 

close to my heart 

and I say

holy 

holy.