Just Getting Warmed Up - August 2, 2024

Gary Hunter
Aug 1, 2024
1 min read

a hot knife that makes it

too easy to slice butter

finds a challenge with

frozen secrets and steely veils

that’s poetic for cutting through

scene or circumstance to

reveal a hidden truth

don’t we all believe every beauty

contains an ugliness and what’s

ugly hides something beautiful?

do you agree that wounds

are perfect because our “perfection”

has always lived wounded?

now that we got that

out of the way let’s get back

to giving each other a break

stop forgetting that behind

toughness we all have soft

guts riddled with mistakes

and please get honest

about how really tender

and childlike your heart is

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