Finally on my way to yes 

I bump into 

all the places 

where I said no 

to my life 

all the untended wounds 

the red and purple scars 

those hieroglyphs of pain 

carved into my skin, my bones, 

those coded messages 

that send me down 

the wrong street 

again and again 

where I find them 

the old wounds 

the old misdirections 

and I lift them 

one by one 

close to my heart 

and I say holy 

holy. 

(Pesha Gertler)