Tears don't mend
Tears don't mend
like tears in cloth
nor does pain stand still
like unstruck bell
touch to quick of grief
tugs at scar tissue
vestige of prior hurt
mortal reminder of event's remove
sap dripping from wounded bark
birds' and insects' plunder
tree's life fluid
preserved as amber
injured epidermal layers
assimilate suffering's burden
memorialized distress
by benign craft healing
mmviii
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