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Best Poems Written by Alexandra Hodgman

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The Shell

She's affraid 
She's hurt
As her pain eats away at her soul
The secret she must keep
alone she stands
No
alone she lies
sinking only deeper
they say they know her
they say they understand
yet she alone knows
they dont
they dont endure what she endures
they dont feel as she feels
they dont suffer as she suffers
and she smiles
hides her tears
hides her cries
hiddes her life beneath the impenetrable shell she has created
naked and bare beneath
yet never does she allow anyone to see her face
to touch it
to smell it
if only they knew
she thinks
every hour
minute
second
but they wont
never will they know
purging her mind
from all the demons that remained in her head
they wont
and once again
she will strip to her naked limbs
Alone
and let those few moments haunt her
to feel 
as if she were taking a chance
the thrill
has always been breath taking
quick
and painless
body shaking
world spinning
a high of freedom

Then reality hits
and everything drops back down
like a rock
a pebble 
solid and hard
unlike the wings that lifted her
liquified at  that one moment
and she returns
same as she always was
hidden in her bullet proof shell
a glimpse at heaven
while she lies in perfect hell

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Holding Hearts To Bleed

I lay cold on the metal table
White sheet of paper lay atop my corpse
A snow field
Barren as i lay dead
 eyes staring up blankly
 into the shining light
absorbing my shadows

you are my doctor
the one whom shall cut me open
stitch by stich 
with your sharp incisions
formaldehyde lingering in your nostrils

I am your test
the one you practice on 
for i am not real in your eyes
i am merely a dummy here for your pleasure

And you run the tap as to divert my attention
from the pain i should be feeling 
and you cut 
digging your hands into me
pulling out my heart roughly to examine

you were never gentle
You take it betwixt your fingers
As it struggles to pump
bleeding slightly on your plastic gloves

And when you're done, you will keep my heart
and push what's left of me back into the autopsy slab
into the darkness
where i shall wait 
for you to bring me back to life