You find the perfect spot
for maximum irritation
you rip apart the incision
determined to arrest healing.
I long to rip you off,
toss you away,
have air and water and space
surround me,
to heal the gash
and help to find my footing again.
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Dedicated to my Aircast® which has a air tube glued right at my incision line. This is a painful irritation! Yeah, yeah. So I’m being literal. Nothing is stopping you from taking it figuratively. That’s what poetry is all about! 🙂
Shawn L. Bird 
Lovely! I hope you heal soon. ❤
Thanks. Me, too!
Toss the irritant, farther than you can trust it.
Yes.
It takes a great poet to write something literal and leave the space and possibility for it to be interpreted so many ways in the figurative sense. The power in this is how grounded the feelings are in your own real life experience. I love it! Well done!
Thanks, Lorien!
i very much enjoy reading your poetry! i wish that i could tell people off the way that you did but since my few attempts at writing poetry have been sad at best I will just enjoy your work instead!
lol
But if you’re from Georgia, don’t you just say, “Bless your heart!” ?
Dad gum it you are right my dear friend…………………..bless your heart!
😉
What a fun poem for a not-so-fun situation. Love the open interpretiveness.
Thanks. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Shawn…here is a poem written by Melissa Shaw-Smith. I think it runs right to your door:
Oh wow. She’s good! Thanks for sharing the link with me!