Reasons why you can't cut it!
What Will You Tell them.
I have scars
inflicted at various
times in my life
from the marines
a compound, compressed
skull fracture at age three
a slash across my wrist
from a job suffering
under a inadvertent slip
of a friends box cutter.
Burn scars, and
surgical scars,
they all tell a tale,
that my tiny son,
once wanted to know.
But I was able to explain
all the many marks
that marred my flesh.
He didn't get to see
the inner scars,
those are easy to hide.
But what will you
tell your two year old
when she asks,
"Mommy, Why do you have
all those lines on your legs,
and your body??
The truth would be
far too hard for such
a young mind to accept
and they so like to mimic
the parents they love
A lie would require
a tremendous
work of fiction,
that even a child could
grasp and believe....
till they are old enough to realize
it was really just you cutting
Remember that
when the urge to cut
overwhelms you again.
Picture those innocent eyes
and that tiny precious set of lips
pursed in a questioning "Why?"
There are ointments
that will help hide scars,
vitamin K and E.
There is makeup that will
cover them as well.
Out of sight, out of mind.
I care for cutters,
I have known quite a few,
But whenever I think of them,
I always picture the scars first.
Human nature I guess,
but still I care.
©-Matthew F. Blowers III
