November 22, 2005
Self-Created Prison
Self-Created Prison
How many more?
The paper-thin skin stretched
over bone marked with vertical
horizontal slashes. Bright red screams from
this unspoken mind.
Do you dare to look for the answers?
Are you afraid of what you'd find
if you saw beneath the surface of my silence?
Raise the sleeves, see the bars that imprison
me beneath the scars etched here
in moments of painful desperation.
I was only looking for a way out.
Looking for escape yet
I've become a prisoner of myself
These marks permanent reminders
of the roads I have stumbled through
the mountains I attempted to cross but
never quite made it over.
And most will never see.
Here I stand, fading fast beneath
the shadows of imperceptability.
11/21/05
Posted by Wendy on November 22, 2005 4:32 PM