Craving
As complicated as arrangements for
A funeral, desire is often not
Observed impassively by victims. Sore
And broken ribs are known by the distraught
Too thoroughly. Though doctors can perceive
The cracks by using X-rays, keenest pain
Eludes those experts. Surgeons’ scalpels cleave
Their way inside the flesh, but what they gain
Is not a grasp of agony, its prayers,
Or venomous striations. Heartbreak’s hurt
Is far more deep than coffins placed in layers.
It flourishes in any kind of dirt.
..The roots of trauma, everywhere it grows,
….Are snarled, but mostly in the loam of woes.