Once again, I'm under the knife
Lately, I've only been doing a few incisions at a time
I've been careful
But not tonight
Tonight I couldn't hold back
I ripped into my skin 5
10
15 times
I stopped somewhere in the thirties
Punched a wall
And tried to forget it
But no, tonight that wouldn't do
So I picked up my little friend once again
And tried for a few more
A few turned into ten
And ten to twenty
And look at that I had at least thirty more
In just a matter of minutes
I had destroyed clean skin
By shredding it and mixing it with red
My own personal tiger stripes
But I didn't feel so strong anymore
Always, I had been able to stop
I had been able to put it away
And control myself before it got to be too much
Tonight was different though
I don't even know who was in control of my body
Just that it wasn't me
If it had been, I wouldn't have all these stripes
It turns out tigers aren't as beautiful as I thought
But I have you to blame for tonight
It was bound to happen sometime soon
You knew I would break
But you don't know how badly you hurt me
You never will
Because now I'm stuck with tiger stripes
And they just don't quite suit me
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Empty Thoughts
RandomJust an odd collection of thoughts in my brain that sometimes come spilling out of my mind