Once – but where’s the scar?

Poetry 1 Minute

Have you ever had surgery? What for?

I’ve only once had surgery

And that was long ago

I had to have my appendix out

When I was only three.

The scar back then

Was fairly small

But then it grew

With me.

It stretched from

Just below my hip

Diagonally

To my groin.

By adulthood

It’d grown a lot

Several inches long.

But here’s a thing

You made me think

To take a look again

And strangely

I can’t find the thing

Or find it there at all.

It’s seems in time

All scars can go

That time can really heal

Or perhaps I’ve simply

Lost the thing

Under belly hair?

Published by Andrew Green

I am a regular contributor to Wattpad where I write as andrewagreen. My first two collections on Wattpad were featured. My first published book Margaret’s Story - a biography of my mother in verse is available on Amazon. I live near Windsor, Berkshire and have offered my services, so far unsuccessfully, as the next Poet Laureate.

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