May 13, 2009

• Walking Raw

  

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  Walking Raw

   

  Do you know how painful it is

  to turn oneself back right-side out

  after being inside-out for so long?

   

  Rawness still bleeds

  beneath the scabbed, but unhealed wounds

  from decades past

   

  And the process of cleansing

  before stretching the skin out

   

  taking it off

   

  turning it back right-side out

   

  putting it back on

   

  and closing it up

   

  -Burns!-

  and

  -Stings like Hell!-

  and

  -Makes me want to scream!-

   

  Harder still,

  When there is no anesthesia

  And I am doing the work on myself.

   

  Sometimes,

  my pain threshold reaches the point

  I think I’d rather pass out

  for just a brief moment

            of respite,

                     to breathe.

   

  But every breath comes painfully,

  without any skin on.

   

  ©drc 2009

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