Elephant

Fresh and clean

You sat in your box on the shelf

Waiting for me to finally notice you

With my hopeful, innocent eyes

Until I did

And freed you from your plastic prison

I dragged you everywhere with me 

When you got your first tear I sobbed for hours 

While mom tried to remember

Lost knowledge of sewing

The tears were inevitable

They never stopped coming

And for each tear that came 

I cared less and less

Years passed 

You watched 

As I learned lessons

Made friends

Broke rules

And we drifted

Eventually there came a time

When your insides were more outside than in

And your tears outnumbered the years of my life

Some still struggling to be held closed

By thread hastily sewn

You were unappreciated

"Just a smelly stuffed animal from when I was a baby”

Then you were forgotten 

Despite the fact that each trial and tribulation

We had endured together

Still lived on in my brain 

You were forgotten

As if you weren’t the one I had

Cried

Laughed

Played

Joked

And grown up with

You were forgotten

Until I found you

In the depths of storage bins

Dull and dirty

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