Hurt and Healing
There are moments of heightened emotions when a totally harmless gesture brings to mind all the harm that you ever saw... The trauma causes you to relive over and over, a time recently or long past when pain was so real and palpable is sought to tear you to shreds. When all around, shrieks and moans of hurt and grief and loss were the only things that, though they were driving you insane, made sense. That's how much your senses had been impaired. It hadn't taken much to happen, just a ticking clock and a transition from one second to the next and drastic change had come. Blood, spewing tissue, tears, dignity of big men withdrawn, sacrifice of a lover and relative so futile yet so productive, young heart's and minds agonized and shown a rough bitter side of this life, so prematurely. This is the bigger picture and whole truth. A certain gladness sweeps over you when you realise it's just a memory and hope builds in your heart. If you made it this far in one piec...