Friday, February 11, 2011

Old Wounds and Battle Scars

Just when you think you are over something, that you've gotten beyond it and moved on, the pain can rush back in without warning. Like a crack in the wall you thought you had fixed long ago, suddenly a huge tear and the entire thing collapses like a house of cards. Who knows what set it off? It might have been anything. One minute showering or shaving, the next your heart is breaking like a new wound- as if it were that same day all over again- even after several years. The old questions I should already know the answers to flood in, suddenly forgotten- "will I ever see him again? Is this life just a one act play on the stage, spent watching those we love
take their exits as we look on and keep performing?" The play must go on, and I know there is a plan, but some days the faith is so very weak. A thousand desires never expressed, never fulfilled- sometimes just too much for my soul to bear. Who on earth can ever fathom the many secret hallways of the human heart . . .

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