I’m the walking wounded. But no one can see my scars. No one can see the pain I live with day in and day out. No one will whisper to a friend “That’s that poor girl who lost her child…tsk tsk.”
No one can hear my heart breaking with each and every breath I take.
Instead of pain, they see what they choose to see. But, to him…to him I was all things. And I’d failed him.
Physical pain can be dealt with. You slap a band-aid over the wound and you move on. Psychic pain is a whole other animal. Tell me, do they make band-aids for broken hearts???
The day turned a bleak shade of gray as I walked along our street to the corner store.
I picked out my usual. A bag of Twizzlers and a diet Pepsi.
I barely noticed the familiar discomfort of the rain when it began. I was too busy feeling my heart break for the 1000th time that day. Band-aids for hearts…now THERE is an idea who’s time has come. Wonder if I could patent it, I’d probably make a killing.
About the author
InZanadee
Chicago-ish
Okay, I’m going to admit it, I’m just a boring stay-at-home-Mom. No, no glamorous “other life”, just me and my girls and a puppy named Lucy Liu. But, in this little corner of the web, maybe I can be something else for a while…
Come on, give it to me…I crave your attention…and your comments. If ya liked it, GREAT. If ya hated it, OKAY, who died and made you Critic. Just kidding. I’m always looking for ways to improve my writing. I have a penchant to be wordy, though, so this site is perfect for trying to tame that demon.
I’m a hopeless romantic, a wisher on stars, and a self-proclaimed flake extrordinaire. I don’t always get my spelling and grammar spot on…so sue me. I use the elipsis more than any other writer I know of…but I write the way I think…which includes a lot of pauses and dis-jointedness. (and a little ADHD, I think… wait a minute…what were we talking about again.)
Well, that’s me in a nutshell…wait, I’m allergic to nuts. Let’s just say it’s just me.
Published on May 30, 2007.
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