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Lines

November 29, 2014
By ILoveWriting548 SILVER, Charles City, Iowa
ILoveWriting548 SILVER, Charles City, Iowa
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Favorite Quote:
"Nothing in life is to be feared, It is only to be understood. Now is the time to fear less and understand more." Marie Currie


My left arm laying palm up on my desk.
I glimpse at my wrist by accident, and I remember everything.
I remember every crying fit, every breakdown, every terrible word that each faded line on my wrist brought with.
The nearly in invisible ones from a year ago; the white lines from five months ago; the angry pink lines from one month ago; the scabbard over, deepest I've ever gone, almost life threatening ones from last night.
Seeing them, feeling them, reliving them.
All in the corse of the instant I happen to glimpse at my arm.
As I tuck my arm away I focus on something else, saving the pain for my bedroom in the dead of another night.


The author's comments:

I wrote this while sitting at my desk and remembering that I don't need to do this, that poetry gives me better release anyways.


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