Eccentric Stains

Beneath the skin are unseen scars that seep through    
bones accenting blemishes worn under the surface or    
between the stems of skin. Discolored these fragments    
brand life across skin like a failed suicide.Leaving    
fingers tracing swollen lines entwining wrist, or a    
thumb stroking the pucker skin from a noose, hidden    
beneath a red scarf adorn with humming birds. Strumming    
their moments of weakness in vivid details as pain stain    
stories on body canvas.    
     
These stains wrote their beginnings in the cracks of sun    
blotch faces leathered in texture, graceless in age, as    
yellow stain teeth reeks with spirit that seeps through    
skin, coexisting inside a body drunk off the strife and    
turmoil of a hard life. Swallowing poison to shield a soul    
from invisible hands of an unforgotable past...Chasing  
bottles with cases until slump in gin toxic oasis,  
numbness become the blissful norm when living in a  
world of grey matter these tarnishes spot cast empty  
reflections in bottomless eyes..    
     
Seeking neither clarity nor chaos only a tainted  
silhouette for a shell outlined with a slurred pen  
that pose the questions.How many marks are hidden  
beneath a colorless pigment? When a smile leaves the  
same lines as frown and love is as passionate as hate,  
what stains will they leave in their wake?    
     
Be it internal or external these scars will tell  
the tale of a battle showcased as pieces to life puzzle.  
Some faded and dull while others are bold and sharp,  
leaving their lasting impressions on a spotted life  
that forgot to live pass the pain and embrace the  
stains that became its foundation...