You slice yourself to make you bleed. To **** emotions, set you free. Veins flow, pain recedes. In crimson stains you suffocate. Just enough not to seal your fate. You rip away to make you bleed to **** your feelings. Make them numb. It feels so good when it acts as a leech. A gentle tear, a mark left there. Pierce a portion, maybe a lip. Feels so ******' free. Whenever you scar, it releases such pain. For a moment or two, How do I know? I used to be you. Have scars and scratches on my wrists. Medals from self-abuse. Those marks are very small, once they let free my pain. Now I'm fifty, life is sort of settled. Me, I'll never ever slash again. (c) Livvi