In need of healing

Like flesh woulds and scares with time all things can be healed,
so they say.
Then why do we die or cry sometimes from a broken heart
of a loved one that's been killed?

Take two broken wings with two equal seams
and make them fly to a place of healing.
But the physical and emotional scares from a loved one
sometimes is oh so everlasting.

They say sticks and stones breaks bones,
but words will never hurt.
I say that's a lie.

Tongue lashes from brawn to decay
we fall astray and like cattle
become the prey.

Reviews

[SleeplessVolcano]

Beautifully expressed.....you are right...words have power, and we need to use them correctly, and be careful of the words we allow to enter our ears...

Edit suggestion: I think you meant in line one the word "scars".

[kelvin]

Thanks for your words and i will have to edit that

[Beccy]

Words cut deeper than knives. Such physical wounds will heal; words become memory and so much more difficult to erase.

Fortunately, there is a higher, benevolent hand that can be of great comfort.

Beccy.

[kelvin]

Yes I agree with you there and it's harder sometimes for those in those situations to find that source. Thank you for your words

[Sami Khalil]

We all do need healing in some form or another. Many things can hurt us on this journey naturally or intentionally. You are going deep.

[kelvin]

Thank you and I agree. A variety of things can be detrimental to us all. But it's up to us to pull ourselves out if the darkness and towards the lights. Thanks again, it's been a while old friend

[Sami Khalil]

All true. It has been. I hope all is well. You are welcome.

[Taino]

Kelvin, very powerful poem. The pain from the loss of a loved one is so difficult for some to fully understand. It rips the heart and soul, the mind can go into tunnel vision mode, thinking of nothing else but of the pain and of the darkness that surrounds it. Though these are wounds that no one can see, the soul affected can see them, can feel the scar that, for some never heals.
Your poems describes that pain and loss so well.

[kelvin]

Thank you for your kind words. We never know what state of mind one is going through again thank you