the wound

The wound

the wound is

as an eventful remembered projection

it is worn

as an attire to a story

it is a conciliation

between the glitches and the denials

it is a fulcrum altar

held within through time

it is as a lens for now

composed of befores and afters

it is a comparison activity

ritualized by repetition

it is an emotionally laden

thought filled journey

it is where words surface

with almost holographic impact

the wound includes

physical responses

in reenactments

the body is re-immersed

in flash flood review

it is not so much

what had happened

but what was taken

from what happened

as import into affect

the behavior is reduced

to a more subtle pronouncement

there is a stimulus to the body

but hardly evident

these emotions may become present

more as a carrier

an emissary

a precursor

an audience of account

a display of victimhood

a sentinel of alert

a source of self-nurturance

an agent of revival and recovery

a messenger of inner depth discovered

a medium of transformation

an initiator of expansion beyond

any one of these roles

is in transition’s passage

this as an emotional event

may be processed evidentially

passively

reactively

creatively

savagely

surgically

intellectually

compassionately

and possibly transformationally

all of this may occur

by some other means

behind what appears to be

and is accountable

all of this may happen

when the wound

becomes a reference ritual

a flashpoint to the flood

of nerve reaction

a trigger to sketch memories

laden with

phantom kinesthetic feelings

that tingle or bruise or thud

or bash or numb or tremble

and clipped to unconnected frames

in next moments passing

wounds that would have story

have a positional description

for the feast of the audience

and are callouts

that would have subtly on demand

wounds can be front and center

and work at a distance

eventually expressed

wounds can be disarmed

from those poignant moments

but flooded with outcome relived

a logic develops

that is always in summary

a search is on

even for the dimmest of revelations

there is a tracker from within

seeking out a path of explanation

to these outcomes

this tracker is driven towards the riddle

or the trauma or the source

but without definite means

for solution at hand

the wound calls out when it does

response is always forth coming

this dynamic is essentially in place

no matter the reason or the cause

the wound is as an accomplice

for most of the rest of life

either as a sort of lamprey

unconditionally along for the ride

as a drag or a lamprey

that becomes a form of ruddership

contributing towards a means

of direction

within being unidentified

as purpose

the wound is an appendage

without moving parts

but no less brain activity involved

the wound,

a mirror without clear reflection

a ganglia as remembrance

becoming landmark

a reflex installed with sensory override

a religion of privacy revisited

a form of personal gravity encumbered

and unconsciously revered

a stallpoint in ascension’s beckoning

a switchbox of permission or refusal

a seventh sense in the making

a map to the heavens

with a mysterious guide

a means of deliverance

without much possibility

of share in gratitude

and then . . .

when there

it is of itself

there is

what we have come to call

the wound . . .