Long Bandaid Poems

Verse 6: I've given up love countless times 
I needed to pay up for my heartbroken crimes
I already repented for my sins that made my high hopes paper-thin
Don't you feel that envy from deep within?...

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Where do we come in
					in medias res  not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages  pictures  or else make for images of what...

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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...

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children look forward, adults look around, elders look back

     looking back, I remember a long-forgotten accident I had. While riding my bicycle with no hands, I closed my eyes, daring myself...

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In anger, I scream at the wall.
In pain, onto my pillow I fall.
I take it out on my bed,
punching, my face turns red.
I grab my razor out of despair,
"nobody will see if I make the...

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The air is open-ended,
The wind sends a whisper through my spinal cord at lightning speed 
Acres upon acres of oceanic scenery plunging itself into my irises 
The horizon is as wide as the Milky Way...

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FUTURE)
It rained so hard the day 
I finally gave up on us
I barely remember that day
I barely remember your face
Yet memories of your touch still remains

PAST)
July 13
A panic so uncontrollable
because I was meeting you for
...

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Moby Dick, geometry, physics.
Study every subject everyday.
Homework is an indicator of future success.
Success is not necessarily happiness but it helps.
Freedom is to formulate your own definition of success.
Happiness is an imaginary tree, its own reward,...

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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...

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storm, weight of rain sloshes
o’er the sides of the acrylic tub
thunder of strobe, eyes blinking
slashes of screams, disaster —
utterance of lips, gutteral
door jammed, eye to eye contact
with the lion and lamb; the owl
on heights of...

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It was an old house, built for four, a warm place it was
New dreams walked at my side holding hands ofcourse to not get lost
As the sun arose again and again, so passed the feeling...

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Family unity, ties bound with conditions
Cult peoples kept from alternate climates
Narrow track administered to every woman
Mother of two, Jerusha determined to fight it

Prospect of allowed departure non existant
Packed full backpacks for herself, Cain, Ismail 
Heart...

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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...

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There are gray pictures,
All over the wall,
Some big and some small,
Capturing moments.
And some come and some go,
But there are pictures,
All over the wall

Some pictures are special,
Some pictures are rare,
Many show family, friends
Pictures about things that...

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The bruise of mistakes begin as an almost invisible blue.
The lightest hue.
The mistake not fully acknowledged as even being a bruise.
The errors and lesson still unknown to you.

Then as the bruise of mistakes become knotted...

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I’ve started looking into your soul
          now don’t be scared
I mean no harm, just let me stare
         ...

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The hourglass is almost empty
The candle was almost spent
The compass only points one way
The clock is about to strike twelve
My stopwatch doesn't work anymore
The mirror tells me lies
I no longer know who the stranger is
My...

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How marvelous that when we bleed,
To staunch a flow with little speed,
If not too deep, no bandaid need.

A miracle occurs indeed:
The platelet, wondrous little seed,
Exposed to air, sprouts like a weed,

Creates a mesh from here...

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Dear Heart,
I’d like to file a formal complaint
It seems that your an obsessive overachiever
That you take your job a little to seriously

Dear Heart,
Please stop breaking yourself into a million little pieces-
Because you fall in love...

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Fill me up
I'm a half empty cup
A hole the size of a puzzle
Is missing from my heart
This missing piece causes me grief
No matter how I try to shake it
At times you will find me sad...

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Found on a pedestal, or hold, loneliness bends to isolation.
For silent walls to speak so comfort, felt with validation.
Feel the waves of silence as apathy chills you to the bone.
Few relish in self-centredness, or a...

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Fresh in mind
A lightening bolt in me
But safer, kinder
We slipped off conformity
In triggers of encrypted chemicals
No slap-on labels
No pull to sticky corrections
No show of egos unveiling
Our mismatched skills did not get in the way
We wooed...

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Do you ever have that divine dream 
of jumping rope again?

And sometimes you fell,
running to Mommy, to make
it well with a bandaid and
her oh so, warm hugging!

How about roller skating on
the pavement?
That delicious vibration that
invaded...

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Scraped, friendly freckled face falls to benchtop
Starchy spud plays poker, blank slate envelope 
Lost costume spotted cape, super elixir escapade
Layers on shiny raised scars, recovery escalates 


Sticking plaster, milky soak soothes, heat tempered
Compost bound bandaid...

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GRAVE THOUGHTS

unseen
even though protocol
states 6 feet under
all along
walking up to the stone
pushing up daisies
with my feet
until his mate
fades away
and a fresh dig
even then a tent
covers the gaping hole
but we circle back
and now
only a bandaid board
covers...

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