Heavy and Weightless

parts break with overuse

I've begun the painfully slow

Process of unzipping what I

Wanted my life to be from

What it actually was.

The long walk off the

Short pier that is

Pulling my spine apart

Strip by strip to rinse

The blood and pain

Out from the inside.

Each strip is wire digging

Into the ever working

Hands of my mind.

And how can I bleed out

All the pain in this

Way without losing myself to it?