HEAL: 3: to restore to original purity or integrity
Our innocence
often slips silently
into the murkiness
of the world,
shattering on some
intrusion of reality,
before we even realize
it has fallen.
Those lost shards cut deep,
and once gone,
can never be fully retrieved,
and thus can never truly heal.
Still we must gather up
what pieces we can find,
bind them up, and
create a new innocence
from the old
so we can go on living.
