A Possible Salve

17 August 2026

https://poems.culturing.net/2026/08/17/a-possible-salve/

What a strange silence now nestles
within and without, in the absence
of any found love...but the love
took to bed its own folly, and drowned
the old wounds in a possible salve:
the forgiveness of self, the beginning
of hope, and the power of letting go.