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I Am The Label - a poem about labels and the challenge of removing them


Have you ever been labelled? Who was the tailor of your labels? How do you get rid of the label someone once gave you? Are labels always a bad thing?


I would love you to share your own poem about labels in the COMMENTS below - either a poem about labels you have written or one you know.


I Am The Label


I am the label

someone stitched

into the seams of your soul

many years ago

The tailor, only we know


All I'm sure of is

you've been trying to tear me out

ever since

Neither one of us

ever asked for me to be hemmed

into your hippocampus


But how time has taught us

my barbed-wire stitches

are almost impossible to unpick


Almost


Mark Bird ©2022


Close-up of a barbed wire strand with cobwebs, set against a blurred green background. The mood is tense and rustic.
My barbed wire stitches are almost impossible to unpick


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