【Love and Scars】

 

 

   【Love and Scars】

     By Tian Chao Yu

 

Before medical tubes

choke us

like snakes in the dark

lurking

 

Before bottles of chemicals

injected into our body 

for a few more breaths 

taken in

 

Let's break those chains and

run freely

like happy animals

in prehistoric times

 

Drink rain water for thirst

give hugs for warmth

eat berries for hunger, and 

herbs to ease pain

 

We will go out to the green fields 

make love and scars, and 

collect them as tickets

to Heaven