Think Back

Those scars that we bear on our arms

Those things that we have to hide from our family and friends

Those things that haunt us everyday

Scaly, rough and tough lasts for so long

But the most important thing

Is the reason behind it

The reason why it all started

The reason why they did it

Yet no one really wonders why

They all ask about the scar

Hows it going hows it doing

While they forget what it symbolizes

The power the scars have

What they can possibly cause

And what they will lead to

And after it heals, what happens?

People start to forget

And people will continue what they had started

And the cycle will start once again

Until the victim runs out of room in their body to scar

That is when the thing they decide to scar

Is their lifeline

And only

When they are far long gone

Do people start to realize their wrongs

Their actions

Their words

Their behavior

And what they really did to this person

They remember the times he/she has told them to stop

They remember when he/she started to get less quiet

Less happy, less energetic

They finally realized how

What they did to this person was something they should had never done in the first place

Yet it is too late to go back

Back when they were here
By, Jeannie Palma