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Poem Details
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| Title: | Cut Deeper |
| Author: | Mello |
| Date Submitted: | 12/8/2011 |
| Poem: |
Cracks widen, digging deeper at my flesh. Opening pink ridges to soaring canyons, my lips fall still to the opening my jaw naturally craves for rest. Swift breezes swarm the soft ridges, playfully bouncing along the heights of my lip. Gusting into awareness the soothing gray wafts of smoke to sporadically streaming currents, my eyes roll down, pulsating palpitations to endear elemental aggression burning red; boiling bubbling bewilderment at the ripe energy frying within the corner of my blue-eyed sea waving goodbye to clarity and stinging at my vein’s surface. Blood swells, surfacing and departing in puddles down rounded pinkingly oranged skin. Wrapping endlessly in retreat from forever shelter, my bloody procession swims to an endless drip. Tears swell, drying every swallowed breath. A heartbeat displaces my cut and I desperately fall to my bed’s comfort, still breathing. Angry with the arrival of morning.... |