The Orange Box


Open that Orange box
The one with the toy lock and key
Pieces of Polymer 
Frayed at the seams
A green turtle sandbox
The smell of a hose pipe
Do you know what I mean
yellow house on the end of the street
The one with the maple tree
In the back yard
Life was so perfect then
So very perfect
But the scars
I couldn't see
A tear in the fabric
something wrong
Something wrong with me






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