Your guilt pushes out
from my insides:
a neat blackness,
tingling,
stretching my skin
so it should b r e a k
and I hang from it'
s hooks.
I scratch your bites
until they bleed;
I need to rid the poison.
Even if they scar--
they will--
I must out, out
this damn spot.
A contest entry
- BWOW...Best Write of the Week #15 by Starz of Heaven, aboomer and islekine by islekine.
700 points, ended August 8, 14 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
tear me apart
Comments
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This is a short piece very few words say a lot great job with this one thanks for taking the time to enter our contest best to you always be well.
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I like the unique wording and images you have used in this. I honestly don't think there is anything that I would change - I like it the way you've done it.
Nicely done.
thank you for your entry
best wishes in the contest
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Thanks so much for entering!
Best wishes in the contest and always! Hope to see your talents again! Write on...

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