Broken Reflection

Silent persistence peeling skin from bone With undamaged precision Easing an imperceptible knife into flesh Exposing a fragile heart Stripped with naked vulnerability Surrendering willingly to anaesthetized hands Craving achingly raw excision Clouded with hope filled desperation A lullaby of forged belief Eyes fixated on the gentle thudding of beating Echoing from fading warmth between palms Subconsciously awaiting unavoidable regret Intensely flaming pain searing through a bruised, empty cavity Antagonistic fingers familiarly penetrating, ripping apart A heart eager to love, drenched in gullibility Opening bleeding wounds along already scarred edges Leaving torn pieces distraughtly scattered Bloodied feeling slowly draining Wisps of past shadowed ghosts Self-encouraged to plague again Evaporating out of void eyes Ravaging reflected destruction Self condemned through the hands of a mere puppet Shameful pain piecing brokenness back together Cradling the fading beauty in shrouds of detestation Dissipating into silence Drowning in a symphony of tears