Irreparable Wound Poem by Syeda Anika Mansur

I closed the gates of my heart
To my friends and foes,
This journey of loneliness
I will travel alone.
None can understand the depths,
Of my open wound
I stitch it again,
And again it erupts.
This wound can never be fully healed
Or sealed away
To a corner of my remaining life;
It comes crashing, with searing pain.
This hole in my chest that opened up,
No doctor or healer or sage can close,
Forever it will remain
And bleed an endless ocean.
The Atlantic, Pacific
All the seas and oceans
Can't be compared with the growing depths
Of my ocean of agony;
Only children devoted to their mothers
Who watched her take every last breath,
Who gave her last burying rites
And left her in the grave
Never to see her smile,
feel her gentle touch,
hear her sweet voice,
give a tender hug...
Only they can feel my open wound,
Understand there's no end
No shore to this ocean of agony
I now bear in my chest.