X-Rays

My husband needed X-rays

Since he fell and hurt his wrist.

Turns out there was no fracture

But there was a little twist.

 

You ever break a bone there?

Asked the doctor, ‘cause we see

What looks to be, in that same spot,

A years-old injury.

 

A buried memory emerged,

My spouse at age 13,

While playing basketball, got hurt;

His bone was broken clean.

 

The wounds we suffer in our lives

We might think we’re concealing,

Yet they remain a part of us,

Despite extended healing.