Flayed From Your Body

Bear your soul
Leave it open
In a stark and naked world
Where to do so
Leaves you vulnerable 
To attack from others

And when they come
To injure you
It is difficult then
To trust these ones
Who stab and claw
As the flesh is flayed 
From your back
And the wounds made
Never heal again.

© Paul Warren Poetry
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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