How does one heal?

After countless nights of silent prayers,

Day and night, I wondered

How do I heal?

What does it even mean to be truly healed?

Is it to keep on smiling despite the fractures in your soul?

Or to keep on walking despite carrying invisible scars?

Or when we learn to live with our wounds instead of pretending they don’t exist?

Like the stars on a moonless night,

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Despite being shown light,

I could only see the void all around.

Despite being surrounded by people

I could not feel the warmth.

Despite standing beneath a rainbow,

I could only see grey.

Tell me, what does it mean to heal?

And why do I have to,

When pain and misery are the things that keep me company,

When nothing else stayed.