No One Knows Pain Like

no one knows pain

like

the ones

who

curse their beloveds

and

bleed their heart

dry

like

the ones

who

watch blood bubble up

from wounds

self-made

the ones

who

fill themselves up

just

to empty it all

in a bathroom stall

the ones

who

refuse their meals

and

live for the scale

because

numbers

don't leave

the crying poet

the bleeding cutter

the vomiting bulimic

the starving anorexic

the lost

the empty

the lonely

the unloved

the ones

who

love too much

and

not enough

no one knows pain

like

humans know pain

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