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National Self Harm Awareness Day

The scars I left on my arm

Climb like a ladder to my shoulder,

The same shoulder

You left your own scars on.

The same shoulder

Your arms embraced for years.

 

The scars on my legs

Are cushioned by new lovers

In the dark

Who can't see them.

In the dark,

I'm not wounded.

 

Recent lovers have

Left their marks, but

Your knife in my hand

Was by far the sharpest.

Your knife in my hand

Hurt as much as mine in yours.

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Apr 8, 2013
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