Friday, March 27, 2015

Washing the pain


He washed and scrubbed
to end the pain,
scouring
rubbing
to force the pain out
away, washing to make
the pain vanish
disappear

he could not wash
the pain
away
he could not

without hope he
could not wash
the pain away


Photograph by George Hodan via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.

3 comments:

Eileen said...

Thankful for Hope...has a way of putting pain into much needed perspective.

Martha Jane Orlando said...

We can't remove the pain on our own, no matter how hard we try.
Blessings, Glynn!

SimplyDarlene said...

ah, so true.