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Razor-sharp fingernails scrape layers of flesh from eyelids Splaying them eternally open Can't unsee what's been seen Can't unhear the sounds Or unsmell the odor that rots in nostrils, infecting every rose There's no stopping when they all stink the same Can't undo, can't undo Safety in bile where nightmares are birthed in reality, In places that fester like the remnants of the lids that blinded Bleach doesn't clean untruths Fire doesn't  burn hot enough to mask pain Blisters seem like hope Hope to heal Hope to resemble something familiar Peeling skin back with teeth Wishing for them to bleed When scalding tubfulls try to cleanse the grime that sludges through a broken mind Attached to a heart mindlessly lashed in the shame of Love
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Oct 14, 2014
Oct 14, 2014 at 1:35 PM UTC
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Razor-sharp fingernails scrape layers of flesh from eyelids Splaying them eternally open Can't unsee what's been seen Can't unhear the sounds Or unsmell the odor that rots in nostrils, infecting every rose There's no stopping when they all stink the same Can't undo, can't undo Safety in bile where nightmares are birthed in reality, In places that fester like the remnants of the lids that blinded Bleach doesn't clean untruths Fire doesn't  burn hot enough to mask pain Blisters seem like hope Hope to heal Hope to resemble something familiar Peeling skin back with teeth Wishing for them to bleed When scalding tubfulls try to cleanse the grime that sludges through a broken mind Attached to a heart mindlessly lashed in the shame of Love
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Oct 14, 2014
Oct 14, 2014 at 1:35 PM UTC
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