Alive Again

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DESPAIR

I run the blade on my skin

So cold, but my skin burns

I penetrate the skin

Ah, I'm alive again

Making more slices

Marks of my weak mind

As I cry blood through these

My eyes glaze over

I remember this feeling

Relief, sorrow.

Beads of crimson

Dark as death

Arise from the cuts

I feel none of these

But the first mark

It's been a year

Ah, I'm alive again

I can breathe again

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Cutter's story...I didn't start up again; just needed to see if I was alive..

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if another in reading your poem is inspired to do what
you suggest, then you become spiritually responsible
for the violence