Wounded Healing

Harsh

yet healing winds

Fracture

Breaking

through bindings

Of silent still hearts.

We step off edges

seeking

An abyss

a pattern

it

Haunts our night terrors

And slowly

ever so slowly

What is known

leaves.

That which is new

is relentless

Pounding

at our carefully

locked doors

Unceasing.

Fear

fades

Courage arches

and struts

and

Heals the

wounded warrior.

January 3, 2014 Meldrum Poetry Workshop  
For Du