Heal Your Hurts

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Heal your hurts.
Don't lug them around like a sack of potatoes
or bring them out for show-and-tell
when you need to explain away a bad behavior or an unsettling mistake.

Revisit the scars on your heart,
resolve to remove each one of them
and go about getting the work done.

Without resolution, you remember the original injury
and relive the pain, time and time again.
Old hurts resurface and add scar tissue to the afflicted areas.

The next time a wound opens itself up
and spills its scalding contents on your tender feelings,
don't chase it back down inside of you.
Cup it gently in your hands, kiss it good bye and release it.

Heal your hurts, one pain at a time.

© 2000 Terri McPherson
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