She was a wonderful teenage girl who had the miraculous power to cure herself from any wound, either physical or mental. With her own salty tears, she would cleanse her raw wounds. And her breaths were given, as though not to breathe but, rather, to fan her sores.

Khadija Rupa
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In the poem “I Saw a Woman” by Pablo Neruda, a woman with a tragedy of her own goes to a beach and encounters a woman who has been horribly burned. The woman who has been burned falls to her knees, as if overcome by her own suffering. The other woman comes to her and says, “I have had the same pain as you have had, but you have recovered from it.” The first woman replies that the other woman is mistaken. “No,” she says.

“I have not recovered from it.” Her body is still scarred and ugly; she still lives with the pain of it. But she has not recovered from it. She tells the other woman how she does not think she will ever recover from what happened to her, but how she continues to fight every day against the terrible things that happen in her life.

As I read this poem, I thought about my own struggles and wondered how anyone could ever recover from such pain and sorrow – especially when they cannot escape it.

Source: Unexpressed Feelings

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