TAMPER-PROOF SEAL
I put this thing around my body
years ago to keep me warm,
To help protect me from the bad
and those who’d do me harm -
See, I learned this lesson long ago,
that smiles are dangerous things
and hands that pick you up one day
will throw you right back down, again,
But safely tucked away behind
my transparent, tamper-proof seal
I can live a normal life every day,
but none of it do I feel
And, though I wear a mask
most of the time, I find,
it takes much less effort to heal.
