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(AUDIO) what healing is and what healing isn’t
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(AUDIO) what healing is and what healing isn’t

a psalm from my scars to yours
healing doesn’t mean 
that you forgot where your
scars came from 

or who gave them
to you 

healing doesn’t mean
that your heart will go back
to how it looked before 

the world so casually
broke it

healing doesn’t mean 
that you are “over”
what happened 

whatever in the hell 
that means 

healing doesn’t mean 
that you won’t start crying
again randomly 

your tears ducts are a
broken faucet 

healing doesn’t mean 
that the trauma you buried
won’t be unearthed 

most mummies often exhume 
themselves anyway 

healing isn’t your final destination where your wound is reduced to being a little anecdote that you tell during cocktail parties 

healing is 

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