Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Scar

Scar
by Helen Barter

Angry purple scar of keloid swollen pain.
Heat from healing - radiating and engulfing
the surrounding air in a hot, ugly hurt.

Sliding of fabric - 
a tremble of anticipation.
The cooling whisper of an in-breath,
before your soft mouth imparts tender ministrations of love - 
judiciously igniting a fire to forget all scars.


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