guts and glamour
beauty and fire
pain in winter, pain in summer
pain in lovers and quiet thunder
cracks in the sky mirror drought-burned earth
rain paints pages of the story
that never
have been turned
like a storm didn't seep into my skin
and pull me down under, rename me
and give me yet another
torn, peeling mask
to hide under
sew my mouth shut with another way to suffer
peel my skin like my mask from my arms
holding scars upon scars in my heart
long for the white in the walls
waking up in the hospital bed
