She paints a pretty picture
But this story has a twist
Her paint brush is a razor
The canvas is her wrists.
She paints her favourite colour,
A dark enticing red,
A line across the centre
Then diagonal instead.
She draws one line then another,
Different sizes different lengths,
All lines a different meaning,
A symbol of her strength.
She hides away her painting,
For fear someone might judge,
But they will be there forever-
The scars will never budge.
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16 years old new to the writing world, I'll post everything and anything :) I will follow back! #projecthumanity
*a very close friend has been inflicting pain on themselves and I can only imagine how bad it must be for them.
Nails scratch the surface, A red reality bleeds through. Steel etches memories, Buried within you. Actions surely wrong, brought by emotions ever new. Consequences sad, leaving lasting stains untrue.
Tears burned as they rolled down her cheeks. Thoughts pounded through her head after every heart beat.
Skinny love and telephone poles, Earphones, paper, matches, coals, Bones and water, salt and tea, And coupons paying words for free.
D ark cloud is looming, E verything black. P robing depression, R elentless attack. E rupt into tears, S oon they'll run dry. S o sorry I'm like this, E nd it I'll try.
One cut Two cuts Three cuts, four Come now, dear What's one more.
My sleeves are stained red,. And I'm drowning in my head,. The river's burst and flowing,. What was hidden is now showing,. There are pathways on my skin,. Leading down to what's within,.
It's like soaring, free, like some creature of another land. It's like feeling the icy pain of broken glass crushed in your bare hand.
@patdolan83 thank you i didn't write the first verse it was by @rebelculture it was just so beautiful I had to write it!
@Burrfoot not beautiful in that way, just such an amazing choice of words to put across the depth of self harm
Written with great emotion. Being a retired policeman I had the unfortunate luck to have to respond to three successful suicides. Sad place for many who lost love ones by their own hand.
They won't, but there are lessons learned from tragedy. Is it true, you are only 15? You have such an amazing talent.
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