Poem of the Day - Robert Bly

Wounding Others

Well I do it, and it's done.
And it can't be taken back.
There's a wound in my chest
Where I wounded others.

But it will knit, or heal, in time.
That's what you say,
And some that I wounded
Claim: "I am better for it."

Was it truth-telling or
A thin man with a knife?
The wound will close, or heal
In Time. That's what you say.