"__My Remarks"

 I leave my remarks to hurt, who doesn't get enough credit in my eyes. It is so vast in character, being so much more than the first thought of heartbreak. Hurt is diverse, moulded as a wide world we're introduced to as mere newcomers to physical Earth. Maybe the first drop as a young baby or the first cut you got as a child...prepared us long ago of how hurt can creep up in our every day way of living, especially when you least expect it. 

"All who nuh hear muss feel!", some of us may have heard. In other words, if you refuse to listen, you will feel the consequences of your actions. From as young as you were, no matter how old you are now, your senses have naturally heightened as how to avoid being hurt or when to expect it if you're clumsy like myself.

I must say though, these bruises, wounds, scars and all could never prepare us for the hurt that isn't quite visible. The hurt that seems to sneak and slither its way in and out, leaving no bandaid, bandage, damage, injury, scar, scrape, sore, suture or wound for anyone to see. Funnily, but scarily, not even you can stand up for yourself as a witness. Who in the jury can claim you're victim to hurt when there's no "evidence"? Still, you can't help but admit to feeling something. You can't help but know somehow, somewhere, you're aching...bleeding and losing, yet there's "nothing" to show for it.

Mad you are? Maybe not, or at least not fully. All those around can see are the symptoms of your pain, but no "real" proof to prove it because you know how humans can be, always needing something to show for it. However, you can't always put on display something only God can truly see. I've had to understand and hope you do too that many victims to hurt have never been able to step foot in the jury, for what do they have to plead?

But- in spite of all this, let's not cease to continue thinking. Have you ever thought how quickly you got a cut or bruise and somehow it took days, weeks or even months to heal? Not to mention that though in time that wound heals, you are often left with a scar to remind you of what exactly you faced. Over time that mark may fade, maybe taking years to fully "disappear," however, you're sometimes reminded of how it got there.

Please consider the picture I'm atempting to paint in your mind here, as so many parts of our lives oftentimes go overlooked. It is more than normal to be hurt, because it's inevitable to us all - still it takes us by surprise...leaving and wondering, "why?" You could question why you're still making your way over such a hurdle...but healing often takes longer than how you got hurt in the first place. If the body can naturally fight to recover, having no set date as to when the process is complete, how much more intention and time is needed where a heart and mind can't orchestrate their own escape from an invisible yet present demise?