Built around, this surrounded wall.
Passing grace before the fall.
To rip away what once was pure,
to peel away and endure.
Reveal beneath with slightest gasp,
a pure beneath the purest mask.
To stand alone, face the world,
to see a new form was unfurled.
Like the band-aid you're my mask
but like the band-aid-- not a cask.
I'd do it again, upon this life
and perhaps become a loving wife.
But to pull away what once was pure,
and reveal the healed. That I'll endure.
Author notes
Pulling off a band-aid is the same as your life being ripped apart from some one you love. Your skin is protected beneath the band-aid and so, if left long enough, will grow onto the band-aid if it is close enough, pulling it away rips away the scab attatched and reveals new unblemished skin beneath in the one spot. So if the one you love, the one closest to you were to leave you, the same concept can be paralled with your life which you have built around this person.
A contest entry
- Peel Away The Band-Aid by Dalaney.
1000 points, ended March 8, 2008, 18 entries
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Comments
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healing
Great work!! I love this write and the metaphoric detail was grand... you've inspired me anew!!
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"...to peel away and endure..."
A painful yet hopeful view on the topic.
A moving piece, involving the reader
with "the slightest gasp," the angst
of the ripping. A thinking person's
emotional view. Well done, well done!
Aesthete
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