~An Imbecile's First Lesson In Cutting~

By Zhee

[You sit in paralytic isolation in the blackest of chasms….what are you contemplating? whilst you behold your keloid adorned scars, eclipsed under the dark shadows of your tattooed arms…]

Forsaken in the ferment of rampant emotions… drifting into the abysmal crevices of my bereft soul… why ask when you cannot discern…who would know death if had not experienced it…..

[I regret I am intrigued…. I am but a drone for the mystification that is etched within your mutilated skin… entranced by the razor blade screaming within your hands… for my own barren hands lie devoid of such feeling…]

So you come here to watch…? Witness me slit open my pain… bare my wrists for sanctification… carve out another wound …one for each act of sacrilege this defiled soul has endured?

[I wish I could see your soul… I crave for that vision … but I can only see its shattered reflections in the rents you create… only see its shards dissecting out of your wrists like the birth of a tormented being…]

It is not the birth… it is the demise of my existence….streams of glistening red is my reality….the pain ridden ecstasy of lacerated flesh is my redemption…my sense of verity is not yours… we live in the same world… yet you cannot see….

[I strive to … but I feel impotent…as if iron gates of my imbecilic perception, deny me the right of passage beyond this clouded vision…. yes, we live in the same world…. perhaps I am blind…]

No... you are not blind… I just see too much….

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Copyright 2004 Zheala
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  • ashrain On Saturday, December 24, 2005, ashrain (16)By person wrote:

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMAZING!! i think i almost cried!! fantastic!! ~ash

  • Savannah On Thursday, November 25, 2004, Savannah (218)By person wrote:

    I always suck at commenting, I admit, but this is truly a work of art

  • Rone4611 On Monday, November 8, 2004, Rone4611 (121)By person wrote:

    Christ, ur friggin amazing.

  • ShadowFlight On Sunday, October 31, 2004, ShadowFlight (105)By person wrote:

    I really like the way you've given this a duality- the way you manage to give the reality to the pain and contrast it with the silliness of the act. great piece

  • DarkDruidess On Friday, October 29, 2004, DarkDruidess (313)By person wrote:

    Zhee, you have such depth and passion in your work...I can relate so much...

  • Lotophagi On Monday, October 25, 2004, Lotophagi (333)By person wrote:

    beautiful. and that's it, pure beauty. Thank you.

  • A former member wrote: absolutely awesome, zhee, awesome, i was riveted to this, such a refreshing approach to the subject... and the end was just... wow, killer. you are such a good writer, i love the way your mind works :)

  • FallenFaith On Thursday, October 21, 2004, FallenFaith (44)By person wrote:

    This is great, I can't write a comment worth your time. Excellent write.

  • A former member wrote: We are all perpetual slaves of pain..i really like the structure and how you carried it..

  • Malice In Wonderland On Thursday, October 21, 2004, Malice In Wonderland (976)By person wrote:

    This was amazing, I'm rendered speechless,beautiful work, exquisitly done Kya Scholar

  • A former member wrote: If only I had read this when I had a problem. Fucking pivotal, Zhee. Scholar

  • DarkWolf On Thursday, October 21, 2004, DarkWolf (415)By person wrote:

    The last line was as beautifully cryptic as the rest of the work.. many times "Eyes without light can see so clear, what those with sight, are blind to." Excellent write Zhee. -Michael

  • A former member wrote: Oh my, you and your excellence . . "No... you are not blind… I just see too much" I am speechless. ~*~ Rose ~*~

  • TropicalSnowstorm On Thursday, October 21, 2004, TropicalSnowstorm (1580)By person wrote:

    "we live in the same world… yet you cannot see…" - I feel those lines very much, my friend. Ciao, T/S Scholar

  • girlafraid On Thursday, October 21, 2004, girlafraid (479)By person wrote:

    i love the style of this...almost like conversations between souls...this is conveyed beautifully...wonderful

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