Before my grandfather died, I asked him what sort
of horse he had growing up. He said,
Just a horse. My horse, with such a tenderness it
rubbed the bones in the ribs all wrong.
I have always been too sensitive, a weeper
from a long line of weepers.
I am the hurting kind. I keep searching for proof.
(Ada Limon, https://therumpus.net/2021/05/06/r umpus-original-poetry-the-hurting-kind-b y-ada-limon/)