The Longing

The
Woman with Bleeding – Mark 5.21-34

no-one knows what it’s like

inside this blood-stained
loneliness

twelve years

of ‘unclean: don’t touch’

a decade and more of
discomfort

my body drained

by the constant issue of
blood
hard edges of rejection
chiselling away
at my self-respect

the whispers

ruthless
unforgiving

keep away

don’t touch
she is unclean

heavy

with the pain
between my loins
tired of being ostracized
weary
of the fruitless search for
help
my spirit hemorrhaging
with the blood

I long

for the bleeding to stop

healingPoetry
May 18th, 2013

Pat Marsh

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