Healed

Matthew Klope
Weeds & Wildflowers
1 min readMar 29, 2020

A poem

Matthew Klope, 2019

What will I be when I’m better?

When I wear those gilded scars,
shadows of a pain
half-remembered.

What will I say to you, when
I see those same cracks in your smile?
When you ask me what it’s all for,
will I be so callous to the sting
of that burden?

Look at us;
Fresh wounds, old wounds-
Nothing less,
Nothing more.

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Matthew Klope
Weeds & Wildflowers

Monterey, CA — Ph.D in Chemistry & Chemical Biology — Mixed writings of mixed quality — all images my own