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This is a collection of poems told from fictional view points. They are not about me.
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#1058747 added November 3, 2023 at 12:42am
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Band-Aids and Bullet Holes
A lifetime of scars
that no one sees
(I never did develop
a thick skin).

Injuries that go untended
because they don't bleed
(on the outside).

Battle exhaustion
that no one will ever
understand or make
allowance for
(what happens behind
closed doors stays
behind closed doors).

A war fought without
resources or
support
but which will kill me
all the fucking same.

But today, a temporary
ceasefire -
we have guests.


Free verse. Written 14 April 2019.

Third place in "Rebel Poetry Contest"  (April 2019)
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