Best Bandaid Poems

My 4 year old was addicted to Band-aids
Every part of his body needed a Band-aid.

'mama mama momy mom mom mama'

"WHAT!!!!!!"

'I have an owie
come see mama'

"Julian, love
mama doesn't have time to look today
I'm getting ready for work"

'Mama 
I need a Band-aid  mama'

"Ok, fine sweetheart
you can...

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The Blue Bandaid 

on the track to the river
the red shoe
green skirt
blood stained knickers
splatter on the trail
the hacked off hand
the offhand remark
brings you back
to where you were
the blue band aid
on the river track
was forensic evidence
of a gruesome
rape murdercase
of yet another
innocent child...

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Look at what you do
How effortlessly you bring me to tears
With nothing more than a memory
How quickly the slightest reminder of you
Melts my happiness down to nothing
I get so confused about you
Because you were the best and worst impact on my life
What should I think...

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I’ve been breathing in the fumes of my existence and expectedness for some time now…
Far too long because this thing I cannot place has had unending hold over me.

I’ve been realizing things lately, and witnessing my own lies…
That I tell myself to feel sane or...

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