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Purple Heart
December 18, 2013
she greeted herself
on her way back from war
because nobody else
had believed she’d been
gone.
in that terminal
she was sat ‘til she wheeled away
—half a mind, half a leg—
because no one around had she
recognized.
trying to talk,
she was pushed from her
mom, counselor, psychiatrist, psychologist,
but she didn’t want to talk
anymore.
so on her chest,
I painted my own purple heart
because I knew that she was
a wounded survivor of
Myself
© Asia B., Hudson, MA
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