Carry With Me

These scars I’ll carry with me always

They never seem to heal

It takes but a moment’s idle thought

for the wound to be forced open

Never quite as wide

and the pain dulls with time

but random pangs of rememberance

still strike now and again

Not sure what’s left to learn

or how to leave behind

whatever ghosts of days gone by

that bring about these flashes

The spikes that strike my soul

the pangs of what came long before

and what might have been ahead