Can time ever heal these wounds? Can time heal everything for that matter? Perhaps, if we had the time, but that has not been my experience. Some things reach too far into us, so far that time loses its touch and cannot heal. Some things we don't let time heal, instead, choosing to hold onto the inexplicable pain we have grown familiar with. And some things are forgotten with time. Rather than being properly healed, we cover them with a layer of "forget", allowing it to become that scars on our souls. It is these, perhaps, that hurt us the most. They disappear in our memory for awhile. We forget the pain caused and inflicted. We forget the tears shed in agony, the harsh words spoken out-of-turn. But most of all, we forget the reason why there is such pain in our lives, why we are crying rivers, why we are hanging our heads in shame The memory of these things are forcibly pushed from our consciousness. But that doesn't mean that the wound isn't there anymore. It doesn't mean that the scar doesn't stretch and pull sometimes. It doesn't mean that the pain is gone forever. Time doesn't heal all things. Time doesn't forgive and forget. It does let us go on in the hope that one day we will have the strength to face that pain, and in one act of quiet desperation, let everything go. Time passes, and it is necessary. No one is strong enough to face pain and forgive it immediately, not when the wound goes so deep, so far within us so even to scar our soul. Time does not heal, but it does give us hope.