Fingernails

Fingernails to the wall    
digging through the skin    
Scratching them every day    
burning tips so thin    
   
Pase the movement down they go    
peel them to the bone    
Screeching sound of blunt    
ten times to the tone    
   
Fingernails to the wall    
Pray that it will end    
Dripping traces left of red    
staining knees that bend    
   
Rise them slowly up again    
to run them down the track    
Yesterday's old stained traces    
have slightly turned to black