Innocence Renewed

Rip it out, 

    the blood, the veins, the bones. 

Dig your fingers into your skin

    

And feel it.

Feel what you are, 

    feel your impermanence in this place.

And weep with regret that burns your soul.

Then fix it.

Rewire your veins,

   reassemble the bones.

Drink the new blood from the well

Then go

Go and walk with the living

   knowing that you are clean

Knowing that you are new

Now live.