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The first cut shallow and pained Slicing the skin on my wrist in two Deep red emerges in a thin line The next cut, deeper with more emotion The tears that started two hours before Continue to ebb and flow Leaving tracks of mascara smearing as I wipe the stain away The next cut breaks deeper The skin on my back and arms raise as gooseflesh Maybe a moan maybe a cry seeps from my teeth A hot trickle of blood rains from the cut Pouring down into the empty hole of the sink A sting of water wakes me from the trance as I stare at the razor which blemished my skin I keep telling myself, one more, one more, one more... And walking away from the bathroom and the blood To find myself wandering in again to clutch the razor and bring it to my skin
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Nov 6, 2015
Nov 6, 2015 at 9:31 PM UTC
Causing harm to myself on a Friday night
The first cut shallow and pained Slicing the skin on my wrist in two Deep red emerges in a thin line The next cut, deeper with more emotion The tears that started two hours before Continue to ebb and flow Leaving tracks of mascara smearing as I wipe the stain away The next cut breaks deeper The skin on my back and arms raise as gooseflesh Maybe a moan maybe a cry seeps from my teeth A hot trickle of blood rains from the cut Pouring down into the empty hole of the sink A sting of water wakes me from the trance as I stare at the razor which blemished my skin I keep telling myself, one more, one more, one more... And walking away from the bathroom and the blood To find myself wandering in again to clutch the razor and bring it to my skin
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Nov 6, 2015
Nov 6, 2015 at 9:31 PM UTC
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