Black Sheep Brainchild

Time heals all wounds?

No.

They scab over. Become scars. Sometimes they fester beneath the surface, becoming large, infected ulcers, unnoticed until they have caused catastrophic damage within the soul.

It takes more than time to treat these wounds. They never fully heal. But they do change. They can be managed with careful and constant care. One can even go days without remembering that they ever had a wound to begin with.

And sometimes its presence consumes their every moment, even decades later.

But today – today is a day I am going to claim that wound. Today I am going to choose to remember it is there and I am going to sit with it, examine it, let the memories of how it came to be wash over me…

…and I am going to shape it into something new. Beauty from ashes and pain. Smiling through the tears.

I will rise. I will claim my pain. I will turn it into something beautiful. Akin to the love that it once was.

I will thrive.