on the healing process

To unwind, unwrap the layers of netting and string that encage your throbbing heart, slowly tease apart the knots that have been tied so many times that they’ve welded together.

The threads which have been in place longer than you can remember, laced all through the cavities of your body, pull them apart one by one. Feel them rip as they come clean in your hands, shed the burnt string and wire, inch by inch, ply them away from your vital organs, remove the panelling they held in place around your lungs and sigh in relief as oxygen floods your desperate veins.