Scarred Triolobite
Apr. 2nd, 2010 04:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
summer_jackelWe wear our scars
quietly; they become part of us, worn and lived with
but they are telling.
I heard of a scar
The ghost of imperfection on a trilobite's shell
five hundred million years ago.
That a mark should stay so long
telling of a thing and how it lived
and what chewed on it---
The seas changed, the lands moved
the animal gone;
the scars remain. They will.
quietly; they become part of us, worn and lived with
but they are telling.
I heard of a scar
The ghost of imperfection on a trilobite's shell
five hundred million years ago.
That a mark should stay so long
telling of a thing and how it lived
and what chewed on it---
The seas changed, the lands moved
the animal gone;
the scars remain. They will.
