Scratches

I look into your eyes

Trying to find you there



My gaze drifts down to your arm

The raw scratches, opened up

For the third time today.



I want to burst into tears

Cry for your pain



I try so hard not to be angry

Do you realize that each one

Of those

Scratches

Hurts me as badly as if

It was my arm they were on?

Author's Notes/Comments: 

My wife has self injury issues, part of the many effects a very abusive childhood have left on her.

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I wish I believed you felt anything. I feel every scratch. I feel every wound. I feel the new ones, put there today, after two months without a single cut, put there because I have no medicine and I know that I won't have any because nobody can be bothered to use the account set up to get it for me. But who cares. It's just me. Bleed, Jenn, bleed. It's only blood.