Any Other Way?

Everyone is hurting.
Some are bleeding,
Some are covered with wounds.
Or bruised – deeply bruised.
The rest are full of scars.
May be a visible, an actual scar-
Or a mental and emotional perhaps.
The point – we all are hurting!
I think that unites all of us-
Our own brokenness!
We all are broken-
In our own way,
In our own scale.

And there’s an assumption-
Or fact, possibly.
Talking about your problem,
Not just talking actually,
Pouring your heart out,
Knowing the depth of your wound,
Opening up the covered wounds,
Make them bleed a little or so.
Peeking beneath the wounds,
Looking throughly the scars,
Just to make sure if there are unhealed parts.
That would actually fix the problem, they say.
For the healing to come-
Reopening the wound is the first step.
It’s one of the many steps to cure our brokenness!

Here’s my argument though,
Is there any other way?
Any other way out to find closure-
Without actually reopening the wound?
Any way that doesn’t involve talkin’?
Or without knowing the depth of the pain.
A different approach-
To deal with your bruises?
Can’t we give it a name without goin through it?
All over again!
Now, I’m begging,
More than arguing.
Would you please find a way?
For us not to go through that again?
Can you just suck the pain out?
I really hope you could!

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Inspired by ;

"I want to talk about what happened without mentioning how much it hurt. There has to be a way. To care for the wounds without reopening them. To name the pain without inviting it back into me."
 
 — Lora Mathis, If There's A Way Out I'll Take It