It Always Ends Badly When It Never Ends

I'm placing strings in needles and creating new seams
Pricking fighting fingers for what this brings
Opening the lines of smiles with softer things
but you like to rip
like to tear bandages 
with  no interest in blood
just the sound of a breaking, the wince
The mystery of what's under the covers
calls you here
but you play hide and no speak with bloodletting
Planning puppet shows in your dwelling

There is no more time to look for needles and strings
Let's lay it here bare
See how the clot of your presence
causes more hemorrhage
Thinking nothing of tachycardic pitter pats
I just figured that
this is how it flows
and maybe the sadist will enjoy newly marred skin
Soft pink hues clashing with new fabric, this is more than a bruise

I dreamt of babies in past times
So maybe you'd bless me
bring new dressing for wounds too old to place but too deep to forget
and you did, long enough for the browning of raised skin
creating camouflage of a better understanding
but what does camouflage do?
Stepping out of coverings revealing the ravaging you

You are sharp edges hitting kneecaps
splinters in my feet
You are strange slithering things beckoning to eat
wrapping choking, heavy body around all things meek
You are the reason for silver linings
You create shadows for the bleak
Copyright © | Year Posted 2013

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May 30, 2014 at 3:25 PM
Hi , havent visited your page yet and looks like i was missing out on some very fine writing, i enjoyed this one very much, I hope and pray you have healed from it all. Blessings Carl
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May 30, 2014 at 3:24 PM
Hi , havent visited your page yet and looks like i was missing out on some very fine writing, i enjoyed this one very much, I hope and pray you have healed from it all. Blessings Carl
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