Scars Don't Fade

Scars don't fade...
But neither need they be worn
Like body art or jewelry;
Like a pendant made from most
Sacred stone...

Scars don't fade...
But they can be downplayed
Beneath stylish hairdos, and
Buried under colorful layers
Of robes, in the name of
Pleasure, of peace
No shame in the apparent hiding...

Scars don't fade...
The but past is bygone
And the imprint it leaves
Is less and less like a welt
Over time...smoothed out
Like a child's dug hole
In the sand, by the waves
On life's rhythmic beach...

Scars don't fade from flesh
Yet they blend
And cease to intrude
Like comfortable change....
They cannot breach beauty--
And always
Despite....
Breath remains...

I am not my scars
Evermore nor ever-again....

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