Skin Deep

Skin Deep

My indulgences
Are more then skin deep
Then run like chasms
Throughout my mass
That etch into my heart
Bleeding it raw.

I cling to a teddy bear
Stuffed with barbed wire
Doused in poison.
Daily I thrust my teddy
So the barbs impale my chest
Digging deep, the ridged wire
Fastens itself to my muscles
Causing indefinite paralysis
Until the poison fills my blood.

I am addicted
It laces my capillaries,
Veins, ventricles,
And even heart
When it runs low
I must have more.

I am addicted
To a 90 year
Suicide process.

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