Skin epidemic

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The more frequent they come

The more they leave in their wake




I have an addictive skin disease

My brain is all shards of glass and shiny metal that cling and make sounds

It tells my skin to open up

and maybe there, my disease will crawl inside of it and curl up

Maybe it'll stop stinging as soon

as it gets under my skin to replace the one emotion I can't get rid of




The doctors don't care
Neither does she

They just shrug it off
And so many people have this disease

So many deaths from this insane and misunderstood diseas

They see us every day
They see so many of people like us every day

But my skin is strange

It aches and crumbles
It moves and shakes

And it dosent feel like mine

Nor his

Nor hers

Nor theirs

My body is the skin disease that stems from the very thing that gives me life
Myself,

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