The skin still burns the ache still sings
Yet underneath the daylight clings;
It seeps through pain through red through deep
Through what the loss could never keep
Each wound a window raw alive
Where light and learning both survive;
The cut becomes the open door
Where love returns and fears no more
The blood dries slow the mark remains
But from that scar a truth sustains;
The wound becomes the seed of sight
The place where darkness turns to light
I touch the ache it does not flee
It hums the hymn of memory;
The dawn now grows within the pain—
The sun reborn through what was slain