"It's useless to wait for the wounds to start healing..."

It’s useless to wait for the wounds to start healing,

The trick is to learn how to savor your grief, -

Is this why you find the slack-line appealing –

Regaining your balance, if ever so brief?

Is this why your photos are so saturated? -

You find in others what you miss in yourself.

The absence you feel just can’t be sedated,

We are nothing alike, but I fear this as well.