Jaime (part II)

By wannabe_rebel

Your skin is thin, and white
as the paper of your cigarettes.
You look dangerous and clean
like cocaine powder,
harmful and pristine.

Your bloody past is leaking through,
inevitable and red
like the wine bottles winking
in the dim light under your bed.

The sugar that once rushed
through your veins has slowed
and crystallized.

Your green eyes flash and shut,
the flutter of beetles' wings.
You can't bear to open them again,
to face what tomorrow brings.

You can't outrun the truth,
that his eyes were not yet formed.
They will always remain unopened,
and you will always be torn.

From the inside out, you've been scraped bare,
but this is what you chose.
Forever, your stitches will stretch and tear,
and your wounds will never close.

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Copyright 2005 Kristin Hubbard
Published on Friday, July 15, 2005.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • capt_funguy On Wednesday, August 31, 2005, capt_funguy (778)By person wrote:

    oh man ... this was rough ... pretty obvious where you stand ... this was cutting , and clear .... very well done ... funguy

  • abattoir On Tuesday, August 30, 2005, abattoir (115)By person wrote:

    wow....this piece was amazing.words used were colorful.WELL DONE

  • A former member wrote: loved the flow allso dug all the ajectives..... thought they where nice.....yeah

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