UNRESOLVED DESOLATION

Tired and trapped, I drop the mask

Seeking solitude in fragrant waters

Painfully indenting through flesh

And drawing out bitter crimson

Gleaming silver touches supple ivory.

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My inconsolable heart lays bare

As inner turbulence overflows

And made one with outside wounds

My mute soul, again, given a voice

Through bitter sobs echoing from me.

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While wounds close and tears subside

Sated are pain and anger welling inside

I slip out of crimsoned waters

Seeking peace and deliverance

But receiving emptiness in their stead.

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Before I step out into the pretentious world

I hide behind my happy mask for all to see

While I cover the evidences of my scarred soul

The suffocating truth only for me to know and reopen

While the rest of the nonchalant world moves on.