Internal Pollution.

Bitterness like acid rain can damage the soul.
Much like a radioactive storm pouring down upon a fresh crop,
Eating away its use, and beauty.
I know your pain.
I know your sadness.
But a wound that is always scratched will never heal.
To reopen a wound, causes only more pain and eventually infection.
An infection of bitterness eating away at your being,
Until there is nothing left but a black hole of dark, ugly memories.
Leave it alone.
Let it heal.
Until all that is left is a scar.
A reminder.
A lesson.
Then, maybe then, you will be able to say,
" I was hurt. But I can rise up now,
Stronger and wiser than I was before."
And then, maybe then, your life will go on.
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Our Father, which art in Heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done.
On Earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses. As we forgive those who trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation.
But deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the kingdom,
And Thine is the glory
Forever, and ever.

-Amen.