Bataka

100 themes challenge 1

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The wounds were always fresh in the beginning, like when a blade pierces one’s flesh and the blood seeps down. At first, it’s always just shock. Not long after comes the pain. Over time, wounds heal, and eventually go away altogether, like a scab long since picked and flicked under the couch.

That is, of course, the nicest way for any sort of pain to occur. There are other ways- less pleasant ways. The things that keep te up all night, crying softly into your pillow, not wanting to fall asleep in fear of reliving those painful memories- But likewise,...