“Dealing Poorly”
too terrible to put into
words and yet here i sit,
trying, feelings born of
past hurts and betrayals
from a time long ago
when i had it all together,
finding the very idea of
healing to be some cruel
joke as it never seems
to come so i struggle
on and fight my way
forward, realizing, to my
chagrin, that time doesn’t
heal all wounds, some
fester and become infected
and eventually require
amputation