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      Josh posted an update

      a week ago

      A Long Story


      It started with a small event

      I traced it back around the bend 
      of that knotted thread of feeling
      exhausted by trauma strain and pain 
      announcing their presence 
      screaming without sound 
      one glance at the unnerving 
      selfie imprinted in my heart 
      and decades later on this day 
      I feel my childhood torn apart
      
      the journey to becoming whole 
      stretches back so far along 
      those tangled roots of untold
      stories paved in doom and gloom 
      of ancestral troubles unresolved
      roots long since forgotten 
      but still not rotten
      direction unclear
      outcome unknown 
      I just yearn to learn 
      how to be free of pain? 
      is timing written in the bones? 
      does healing have to take this long?