This Space of Violence

This space becomes a pressing malice 
to which death rapes the beautiful girls 
into submissive screaming.
There can’t be a breath of fresh pain 
to suffocate this kindness. 
Because life begins to die
 as soon as the breathing stops. 
I fume in the burning rage of salient slicing to which gages the envy.
Hate keeps the blood from staining my clothes because my clothes are my nakedness. 
I feel not a pin prick in this gash that is my perversion .
Numbness cuts this distaste against this wall of bloody suicide.
 So now my end is the beginning
 for nothing in my words describes 
the space of violence in my head.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2008

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August 12, 2008 at 2:41 PM
Matthew, This Space of Violence is an incredible poem. Your beauty of expression has left me in awe. Your pen does not release words on paper but rubies and emaralds that sparkle and enchant. May I thank you also for your comments on my poem You Didn't Come --Mohammad
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