Flashes of Scars

a poem about connecting inner pain with ruthlessly raging nature

Photo by Artur Aldyrkhanov on Unsplash

Flashes of Scars / Zeta Ferrer

I watch the storm
spread over the surface
in scars lighting-bright
over sensitive skin.
Drawing etched into canvas
jagged edges and seams.
Yet I dance in the silence
between loud thunder roars
heartbeat drumming in rhythm
with a sky lit above.
In my veins it resounds,
the celestial pain,
and the red rain within
is contained
by the raging rain without.

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