Band-Aid | The Poem | by Lexi Orr

Band-Aid

by Lexi (Alexis) Orr, age 14

I know that I am Broken,

but I don’t want to be “fixed” by someone.

I’m not saying I want to stay broken.

I don’t think anyone truly wants that.

What I want is a band-aid.

To a small child a band-aid is the age-old cure-all.

Whether the wound be a scraped knee or a broken heart.

Maybe the children are on to something.

The function of the band-aid is not to heal the wound,

but to hold it together a little bit longer.

A band-aid is simply there to keep the wound from getting worse.

And Yes, the pain is still there,

but that doesn’t mean the band-aid isn’t working, not at all.

It’s doing exactly what it’s intended to do.

The band-aid keeps out all the bad things so that, once it’s gone,

the wound is good as new.

To a child, this is like magic, completely beyond comprehension.

A child may give all the credit to the band-aid,

but the band-aid didn’t fix the scrape.

The band-aid simply held the scrape together long enough for it to heal itself.

So when I say I don’t want to be fixed,

it doesn’t mean I want to stay broken.

It simply means I don’t want someone to think they can.

What I want is a band-aid to hold me together long enough so that maybe,

just maybe,

I can begin to heal myself.

In Conclusion

In conclusion, if there is one, is… grief hurts! It has no regard to gender, age, or any other social or personal identity you might be able to attach to it. Grief just is! It is something that is guaranteed to hit everyone and anyone who has ever loved anyone or anything.

The simplest definition of the title of the poem cannot even begin to tell the whole story! It is for that very reason that the poem hits home.

Credit

* The following poem is reproduced in its original form in both sentence structure and lay-out. This is published on this site by permission of both the author, Lexi Orr, and the author’s parent, Dessie Orr, to whom “many thanks” go out!

** Any reproduction of this poem for any purposes whatsoever must first be approved and granted by both the parent and author of whom are named above.

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