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Borderline Venom

slick and soft like velvet
lulling fingers my darkness has
she whispers in my ear
and electrifies me

I feel her pulsating through my fingers
pinching and pulling
her whispers turn to screams
I feel the panic gripping my heart
it twists and it turns

maybe the screams are mine
never loud enough
though I can hardly hear them
completely sucked under the velvet

I can barely breathe
it feels like the air is stuck in my lungs
is this what it is to drown?
floating, empty, electrifying, panic

I claw at my face feeling no pain
I have to escape this

the final tool from my arsenal is my rage
fighting with fury I've never unleashed on anyone
am I attacking myself?

numb.

numbness comes with a euphoria
a seeping realization begins to unfold
violet knuckles and trails of teeth marks
the swell I can feel in my face

I pull myself from the ground to the mirror
lifeless yet revived
endlessly deep yet mercilessly shallow
the truth so clear yet so unseen

I talk about my darkness.
my demons. my ghosts.

I speak of the terrors of hell that they hold
I speak while I scream and I sing while I sigh
I am looking my corpse dead in its face

in its eyes

made maroon by the beating I unleashed on myself
puffy and haggard and familiar as well
I see her clearly now

the ghost I have screaming inside

a ghost of a smile on her face for being recognized

I take a breath in and begin to feel guilty
loved ones who see the marks on my skin may convict me
my current runs so deep that no one could know
that the marks on my skin show the scars on my soul
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