Scars Only The Damaged Know Poem by Francie Lynch

If she met him in a different life,
Not this one,
Where he lost my wife;
Would she give this guy a chance,
Despite his failed and trying romance
With her.
Could she understand the shortcomings and frays,
And take a chance he's changed his ways.
Could she touch his skin, smile with her eyes,
And realize he's not the same.
That man died
In remorse and regret,
He did things she can't forget?
Now years later,
Could she live -
Not with a man she can't forgive-
Rather with a man who doesn't show
The scars only the damaged know.