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Shoot up with Ink, Take off the edge, allow it to float you down off the ledge of destruction. Instead place yourself in reconstruction, go on, change it all; Skin Words Thoughts This drug may crawl you back to freedom First the skin, cut to within Slithers of scratches Skim over your arm doing just enough harm To Ensure you're alive Yet this pen's marks are harmless enough that they can only reach inside through your mind You're sure to survive you must never cut deeper A needless nicotine patch for a virginal physical self-harmer Cut yourself Calmer Here come the words, allow verbs, vowels and nouns to sound their way out Say things you wish you'd said Type things you want to shout Find the door and safety lock and force your way bound out You are Alone but for whispered, mouthed and subtle tone of Freedom Relish and Revel Search your way to hell out here Find the things so close, so near, you couldn't see them if you tried, they hide behind the ink. Blink, they're gone, splattered in the lyrics to a lifelong song, branded. How could something so true, be wrong? Allow your thoughts to be free, be you, be me See everything Feel all, Stall as you wait for the buzz to fade You can never be sated with this Something you can't recall but you must always miss. Addictions scarring, marring and barring words always a kiss away from overdose, it's so close you can taste it Feel it's breath When you put the pen down You can only feel Bereft, so test yourself again Find the mental vein and slice it open Feel the pain of truth Open the roof of your skull and allow the clock to fall Ticking to silence Violent peace Calm chaos Hyperbole Alliteration Oxymoronic Nouns Verbs Words Words Words Think ThInk hInk Ink Ink InkInk InkInkInk InkInkInkInk InkInk
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Jan 2, 2014
Jan 2, 2014 at 11:05 AM UTC
Addiction
Shoot up with Ink, Take off the edge, allow it to float you down off the ledge of destruction. Instead place yourself in reconstruction, go on, change it all; Skin Words Thoughts This drug may crawl you back to freedom First the skin, cut to within Slithers of scratches Skim over your arm doing just enough harm To Ensure you're alive Yet this pen's marks are harmless enough that they can only reach inside through your mind You're sure to survive you must never cut deeper A needless nicotine patch for a virginal physical self-harmer Cut yourself Calmer Here come the words, allow verbs, vowels and nouns to sound their way out Say things you wish you'd said Type things you want to shout Find the door and safety lock and force your way bound out You are Alone but for whispered, mouthed and subtle tone of Freedom Relish and Revel Search your way to hell out here Find the things so close, so near, you couldn't see them if you tried, they hide behind the ink. Blink, they're gone, splattered in the lyrics to a lifelong song, branded. How could something so true, be wrong? Allow your thoughts to be free, be you, be me See everything Feel all, Stall as you wait for the buzz to fade You can never be sated with this Something you can't recall but you must always miss. Addictions scarring, marring and barring words always a kiss away from overdose, it's so close you can taste it Feel it's breath When you put the pen down You can only feel Bereft, so test yourself again Find the mental vein and slice it open Feel the pain of truth Open the roof of your skull and allow the clock to fall Ticking to silence Violent peace Calm chaos Hyperbole Alliteration Oxymoronic Nouns Verbs Words Words Words Think ThInk hInk Ink Ink InkInk InkInkInk InkInkInkInk InkInk
I wanted the last bit to look like an Ink drop, but I'm not sure it worked.
Lifesabeach
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Lifesabeach
English
Jan 2, 2014
Jan 2, 2014 at 11:05 AM UTC
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