By Thomas Caterer
There’s this ball of energy; life force
it gets covered in so many layers
like the proverbial onion
covered in matter, flesh, memories,
experiences, wants, and fears
until it is weighed down
so heavy with the burden
It is so farcically easy to corrupt,
tear, and stain the many layers
and the spirit beneath
like spilling wine on carpet
or dropping fragile glass
Yet it is so difficult to heal and repair
the hands require such skill so rare
and even with the best efforts of
all the best trained
you can still see the scars
and things don’t work the way they used to
not anymore, not in this life
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