
cut me out
and I lay bleeding
such beauty
the red and blacks
the pink and pale yellow,
for me to paint in colours
you'll see me drying,
slowly dying
until
you cut me out.
***
Somewhere between healing and finding a new way to live, the part of me that used to write, that part of me that used to be so integral and important in expression slowly took the back seat and now I see it falling off and decaying at my feet, like leafs cascading from a great tree that used to give me shade and comfort.
It's funny how without nourishment anything can just die, so much of the old me has now shrunk into something less than a shadow and a whiff of smoke in a distant memory, to give space for something necessary and stronger, something that was needed to change into what I want to be and where I want to be.
There is no regrets, and I am delighted at the change I have been through. But I also understand that it is not good, not good at all for me to feed my melancholic side with stories of lost and pain and abandonment, not good to indulge myself in pain so that I can bleed and feed the relative half truth about who I am.
So I am moving on, I have stopped writing poems and stories, scripts and ambigous 'she', I am no longer separating myself in many broken pieces, I have no more need to express myself in between these lines, no more need to let my tears stain my words and words to drain my tears.
In place of scars, which I have allowed to close, the skin is crumpled and discoloured, I cannot hide in the smoke screen of adjectives any more, the hiding is over and this is me, pure and simple, ugly and beautiful, torn, broken, but functioning.
The most beautiful thing I have given myself is the gift of simple acceptance and truth. Truth about how I feel, truth of how the scars are ok, even if they heal and hurt no more, they will be no need to have them define me entirely.
I am closing down my blog, surely I write my observations elsewhere, but I will not be writing stories for a long, long, long time. Because I don't want to cut myself up again and again. I am moving on and drawing a line.
I am closing down my blog, surely I write my observations elsewhere, but I will not be writing stories for a long, long, long time. Because I don't want to cut myself up again and again. I am moving on and drawing a line.
Without leafs from that big tree I hid under, the view is fantastic. :)
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