This pain
I cannot contain.
It broils and seethes
It gnaws and breathes
This pain
I cannot
Contain.

It seeps out my arms
In splotchy red stains
It billows out my veins.
I can feel it stretching
Testing it's claws
Eating at my shortcomings
Tearing at my flaws.

I cannot contain

this

pain.

It rips out of me
Until exhaustion is all you see
It breaks of great chunks
Dropping them with heavy 'thunks'
When it decides
They're useless.
Everyone
Is clueless
They see, but they don't do
I don't think they ever
Wanted to.

If I gave you a piece of my pain,
Could you feel it?
Could you feel the steady strain
The pull, the grasp
The hurt that makes you gasp?

If a smile is a frown
When you turn it around
I think that maybe...

I'm
                                            upside
­
down.