Predestined slivers snake through my skin
Cleverly piercing each crevice of my fingerprints
Each varying in sizes
Each sharper than the next
My hand quivers at its new friends
Subtle spots of red appear in unwanted places
Lost and enraged they dig deeper
Swelling blankets the tails that peek out of my pink flesh
Each movement makes them scream
Each scream makes my eyes water
A light trickle of sweat bounces off of the surface below
I stand to take a breath
This task never ends
The rotten ground beneath me laughs at my anguish
“I should let you rot in hell”, I murmured.
It replied with a silent grin
The face of my chore is a dastardly fellow
Cheap
Unreliable
A liar
“You were supposed to last”, I snickered
Back on my knees I continue to scrape and pull
Splinters embedded in my skin will be my memory of this task
A colony of shattered sharks lying within