The Body Remembers
1 The body remembers what the mind was ordered to forget.
2 It stores truth in muscle, in breath, in the way sleep breaks apart.
3 Scars are not failures of healing; they are records of survival.
4 What cut you did not ask permission, and neither did the world that allowed it.
5 You learned early how to stay very still while harm passed through the room.
6 You learned to read weather in faces, danger in silence, love in fragments.
7 This was not weakness. This was adaptation.
8 The nervous system became a historian when no one else would write it down.
9 Every flinch is a footnote. Every ache a citation.
10 Some wounds closed clean. Others sealed crooked, like doors rushed shut.
11 Pain ignored does not disappear; it waits for quieter hours.
12 Night remembers what daylight negotiates away.
13 Many were told to “move on” before they were allowed to stop bleeding.
14 Many were praised for resilience when what they needed was rest.
15 Survival became a job with no vacation and no sick leave.
16 The body paid the wages when the soul went unpaid.
17 Yet still, breath returned. Cells divided. Bones knit.
18 Healing happened even without witnesses.
19 This is the miracle no altar recorded.
20 Do not despise the scar; it is the seam that held.
21 Touch it gently. Ask what it learned.
22 Thank the body for choosing life again and again.
23 The remembering is not the end of the story.
24 It is the place where truth finally gets to speak.