What Bruises May Come

Do you see these marks?

I see your bruise

I see the pain 

They inflect on you

And what you do to me 

Emotionally. . .

I can see through you

And your bruise

The black and the blue

The fights you would lose

You look at me

And begin the damage

Emotionally. . .

I am too

Emotionally bruised

We're both feeling numb

As we go on

For what bruises may come

 

Author's Note

Bruises can be more than physical. Emotions can be bruised. In this poem I want to focus on the pain of two people, on pain physical and the other is emotional

Reviews

[Robert Parlange]

Some of us wear our bruises and scars on the inside. People can't see them so they think they don't exist. But the pain exists.

Good poetry is from the heart and filled with feelings. You are good with that.

[Shawna]

Very nice, and you are so correct that bruises are not always physical... Sometimes the worst are the ones that are not physical. I look forward to reading more of your works.

[butterfly desire]

I like this poem because it is. So true we. all carry wounds

I hope you keep writing out of the depths of your
heart your poem is. beautiful because of the truth that
comes from it

[Iris]

Emotional pain can be much stronger and much more penetrating than physical pain. Emotional scars can destroy a person. I do not mean to undermine physical scars, but they are not perpetual. They remind you of who you are. Emotional bruising destroys what its aimed at and they always say that words are more cutting than a knife's edge.
Nicely done.

[closed]

hurt can go beyond physical
your poem does a great job of personifying that

as well as the struggle to find a place of healing
while in conflict with another

[wordman]

it is a shame that two people once in love should inflict emotional pain on one another,great write

[Coyote Poetry]

Honest and strong words. Create vision of struggle where both people will lose. Thank you for sharing the powerful words.
Coyote