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Emma Elisabeth Wood
Poems
Jan 2023
Red is Blood, Red is Cotton
Red and white checks
concealing sec
- rets
grass blades irritating
bare thighs
fingers trace a pattern on them
marking my flesh in ways I donβt
understand
yet know too well
the pencil draws higher and higher
until it reaches
my centre
yet I am off balance
and the world is spinning around me
clouds dancing across the sky
the sun piercing my eyes
yet still I stare at it
too scared to break the gaze
and return back to my body where
blood is simmering below
but never boiling over
never exposing
never letting anyone else
in on
- it
lips sealed
terrified for the day the locks get
broken
TRIGGER WARNING CHILDHOOD ****** ABUSE
Written by
Emma Elisabeth Wood
F/UK
(F/UK)
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