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Scarification
Self harm or scarification
Scarification or self harm
We sit with ourselves
Our tools before us
Lighters, needles,
Knives, chemicals
Scarification or self harm
Self harm or scarification
There's a fine dance
Of mental illness
And glorious finesse
Who is to decide?
Self harm or scarification
Scarification or self harm
Some slash at our wrists
Blood flying everywhere
Others the scent of burnt flesh
Fills the air like perfume or bbq
Scarification or self harm
Self harm or scarification
Some of us go into it
With a design clear in our mind
I have a spiral one arm
Starting at my elbow and curving to my wrist
Self harm or scarification
Scarification or self harm
I sit and stare at the open wound on my wrist
Irritated red and infection green glimmering
It's an eye or it will heal to become one
An eye to remind me to never look back
Scarification or self harm
Self harm or scarification
Scarification or self harm
We sit with ourselves
Our tools before us
Lighters, needles,
Knives, chemicals
Scarification or self harm
Self harm or scarification
There's a fine dance
Of mental illness
And glorious finesse
Who is to decide?
Self harm or scarification
Scarification or self harm
Some slash at our wrists
Blood flying everywhere
Others the scent of burnt flesh
Fills the air like perfume or bbq
Scarification or self harm
Self harm or scarification
Some of us go into it
With a design clear in our mind
I have a spiral one arm
Starting at my elbow and curving to my wrist
Self harm or scarification
Scarification or self harm
I sit and stare at the open wound on my wrist
Irritated red and infection green glimmering
It's an eye or it will heal to become one
An eye to remind me to never look back
Scarification or self harm
Self harm or scarification
Published 5th Oct 2020
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5th Oct 2020 10:02pm
5th Oct 2020 11:53pm
We can certainly feel the despair throughout the piece (especially when you repeat the couplet) but that closing stanza also offers hope.
Great write Blue.
Great write Blue.
6th Oct 2020 8:13pm
