Spiritual amputation
It's nothing you will ever do yourself.No operation can be more involuntary.
Others certainly will do it with no mercy
ruthlessly and without anesthetic,
and no physical infliction can do greater harm
and hurt you deeper with more lasting scars for life.
It may be just an accident bereaving you of your beloved,
some political disorder cutting off your roots, exiling you for life,
the importuning of authorities and some bureaucracy
that turns you out of home in violation of your human rights
or maybe just a treason by your closest friend.
No wound is harder to survive, more difficult to treat
and more impossible to dress.
You'll simply bleed to death forever.
Poetry by Laila Roth
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Written on 2017-04-04 at 20:09
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