To a Girl Who Deserves Everything

One wish. Just one. 

To take your pain

and fold it into origami

paper cranes, 

quarter your past in quarters

and corners

and checkerboards, 

bleed your scars 

into our own healing voids. 

One wish. 

to take just a small fraction

of your hurt

and store it in our hearts

so we can be strong

and weak

and strong

and scarred

together. 

because one person can only fit

so many bloody razor blades

in their mausoleum soul.

but pain does not transcend

our human boundaries

and you are strong.

when the world tries 

to break your back

you will grow a stronger spine.

when it feels like the walls 

are caving in around everything

you will push them back out.

when the tunnel looks endless

you will find the light

and when the marks on your skin

turn white and only visible 

in sunlight

we'll be here at the end

of everything

to admire your tiger stripes,

your battle scars,

and run to the front lines

together

to fight our next battle. 

Reviews

[Sarah Lynn]

Such an amazing piece ! I absolutely loved it ! Well done!

[Richard]

it (this poem) is so frank and you're very detail meticulous I can tell. it's dead honest and damn good :)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this is a really incredible write...what i see is the speaker..a friend of someone who is suicidal...and the speaker is trying to convince her friend that she deserves to live and be happy...and that together they can face anything, as friends...

this friend is there no matter what...not the kind who is only there in the good times...but at the worst...trying to pull her friend out of the doldrums...away from the blade of sorrow and pain.

sure is good to read you again, Dana.

jacob