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Like Paper Cuts Upon My Heart

You select the most excruciating thing to say

To cut me to the bone.

It's almost as if your words were sharpest knives

Thin bladed and honed.

I look at you with stunned eyes, a blank expression

As I watch you depart.

Leaving me standing here to bleed and cry from wounds

Like paper cuts upon my heart.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Written in memory of a mistake I made when I was 17 and lived most of my life to regret...

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©9 February 2002 - 12:21pm — onelilartist
18 May 2003 - 11:16pm — Kitti Kapellas (not verified)
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Wow...nice poem! It's short and to the point, yet it means so much.

11 February 2002 - 3:24am — Melvin Lee II (not verified)
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hi jess..
i like the mention of paper cuts here.
Though just a simple piece of paper, it can deliver a swift and unsuspecting cut, that can be so deep and painful...
i experienced it before , and yeah it's nasty.

Take care... and thanxs for sharing this, ~

9 February 2002 - 4:28pm — Terry P. Barnes (not verified)
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I have been though this a few times. Excellent poem and well said.

Terry