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Raw, but then it would be an understatement to say that those “blister marks” on her arm are confined to the few, the unfortunate, the rare aberration; whose arm is not blistered in this life? Living leaves blisters. As poets and philosophers have long proclaimed, “Every soul and its effects have a progenitor, the results of which there for a reason.” No one is who he is because he spontaneously combusted, and while I may not have discovered this precious secret in youth, in age I have learned that every man’s choices are preceded by reasons, if known only to himself. If such truths are known they are the root of compassion; if left untended, ignored, or denied, they provide the root of both human and divine blasphemy and become therefore the source of all mental pain. Of course, few, if any wish to be reminded of the human condition, but it is at times the work of poets to make an effort in that direction. Again, the poem is raw but its content crucial to both compassion and understanding.
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