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skin pulled taut by stretching fingers veins darken beneath olive skin fingers pull knuckles pull tendons strings seem to stretch from fingertips to shoulder movement like puppetry dry nails break and peel from bending backwards caused by coal ropes you twitch reach move but not on your own you are not your own I am not my own

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grace-anne-kennard

18 / F

For You?

Written by

grace-anne-kennard

18 / F

Published

Aug 8, 2015

Time

1m

Notes: A poem about not feeling in control of your own body while dissociating
Tags: #dissociation

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