The scars from the past,
has abraded my skin inch by inch
and now what is left behind
are some bleeding veins,
with engrained gory marks

The scare of distant battles,
The ghoulish terror nights
all endorsing the blemish to thrive life
not letting the mind forget
the lessons from the ghostly past

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