Each Scar I’ll Keep for Him
poem 877
Each Scar I’ll Keep for Him - meaning Summary
Scars Kept as Devotion
The speaker frames personal wounds and tears as deliberate offerings to an absent beloved. Scars are preserved and presented as "costlier" tributes worn through absence; the speaker also counts her tears against his, concluding that his would exceed hers. The closing I'll mis sum them
suggests a willful undercounting or modesty, keeping pain concealed as a gift and measure of devotion.
Each Scar I’ll keep for Him Instead I’ll say of Gem In His long Absence worn A Costlier one But every Tear I bore Were He to count them o’er His own would fall so more I’ll mis sum them.
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