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Nearly Forgot

Hannah Capps

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I’m the pretty thing that time forgot, I’ve been left to sing and rot.

I unmarked, the one you miss, I’m the closing clawing fist.

I’m a soul to those of foe, once seen back to and fro.

Deuce deranged, tetrad missed.

Wailing mess, silent twist.

Remember the time, we use to dance?

You the stab and I the chance?

Shredded arms in shifting skin;

Dressing gown of braided sin?

Yes you the thing that I forgot,

You the act unlearned, untaught.

(This is a poem about my former struggles with self harm, and the haunting memories that mark my skin, it's a reminder that it's worth unlearning this destructive 'coping vice' but as a reader of a poem it can apply to many things and that is the beauty of writing and the human experience.)
 
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