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This is for you

You took a scalpel to me, my dear

Skillfully working your way through the layers

Epidermis to lipids to muscular tissue until

The bone

 

You carved your name on my radius

Lovers' initials on a tree

Marrow leaked across your hand

A gift of the broken

 

You tried to sew me up, my dear

Realising you had gone far deeper than first thought

Surgeons hands you have not

A hack job, bound to leave scars

 

You've left me with bumps

Burns

Itches inside my very being

Refraining from scratching

In fear of what might come pouring out

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Written by
eliza-jane
Australian
Published
Oct 14, 2013
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17·97
Notes

hyperbole and hyperactivity

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