Carvings

Why do you carve these words into the wall?
They make you bleed.

Because the wall is empty
And I am full.

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Published on Sunday, December 5, 2010. Filed under: "Personal" and "Poetry"

Comments on "Carvings"

A former member wrote: interesting, this work made me think. as poets we "bleed" into the page but why? sometimes its the only way to let go, its the only escape. sometimes a little bloodletting is called for.
On Sunday, December 5, 2010, LostInTime (11) wrote:

Thank you for the comment. I have read some of your amazing stuff and I can see that you undestand this. For me writing is always a release, an emptying of some sort. Sometimes blood, sometimes joy, many things. But always something inside that must get outside