From All of the Before #MondayBlogs

Time does not heal everything
but leaves it, years removed
far beneath the surface of our minds
distance does not change hearts
from the sharp-edged stone that drove the wedge
but only makes it more difficult
for the pain and the violence to reach us
still we fall back onto those two
distance and time
like a mantra or prayer
until life unearths
all of the buried pain and fragility
from all of the before
carried with us into the present
a reminder of the cycle
we seek to break – Caroline A. Slee