The Healing

Little Thoughts

Everything heals:

The bruise on your knee from tripping over a tree branch and falling on a rock while taking your dog for a walk,

Your nail beds after successfully peeling off the gel polish that's been stuck to your poor nails for weeks,

The rips on the inside of your cheeks from your habitual nervous biting,

The acne and normal teenage flaws that you so desperately try to hide every day,

Your fingertips once they start to bleed from playing your favorite guitar tunes one too many times,

Your brain after carrying a pile of tiny hammers that keep falling and crushing your every positive thought, your every slight movement,

Your heart after letting those tiny hammers chip away at the fibers that keep your soul together,

That cut on the back of your calf from shaving that screamed when you tried to be nice and clean it,

Your new piercing that you swore to every Google search was infected,

Your body after starving for months on end and doing, what you thought, was detrimental damage,

Your trust after watching the one you loved stab you in the back and put a Band-Aid on the open wound.

But there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

Everything heals,

And so will you.