Where oh where did you go
Oh Blankie of mine?
Who would I be now
if it’d been up to me to let you go?
They just saw tatters of a well-worn blanket
An outgrown toy, a nuisance, embarrassing proof of their failed parental skills
You were the key to my security on this spinning planet
My anchor, my buddy
Maybe it would have made all the difference
I wouldn’t still carry this feeling that there’s no thing and no one on this earth to truly rest my heart on
This ever-constant ache for more of something I can never put my finger on yet can never have enough of
One day you were just gone
No one would tell me where you’d gone to
Which was worse — thinking you’d abandoned me
Or that they’d betrayed me?
What book suggested that solution
Was it you, Dr. Spock?
I know, I know
“I am my own Blankie now”
Fuck that.
#blanket #childrearing #loss #betrayal
Daily Prompt: Blanket
Life On The Skinny Branches 
How sad….go buy another! I have several and I’m 50! They provide comfort to all. xo
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I kept my boys’ blankies… your post made me sad 😞🐻
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I love that you saved them! My parents did their best, but I do wonder what if they’d let me decide to stop with the blankie…
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Dear Lucy,
Another post from Margaret on her “blankie.”
Love, Mommy xox
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blogging is your new blankie! and it’s fabulous coz you can share it and it’ll never ever be lost. in fact the more you share it, the more that comes…
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I love that! Thank you for seeing it that way for me,
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