i look down
shards of glass tiny icicles
etching tiny red rivers thru the landscape of my skin
painless spidery rivers keep trickling
flowing to an unseen basin a cleansing shower of blood
crimson black deep bright red river no life exists
this red river is the only that ever stays warm
thick red river i visit you you are my own my savior
red river life giver my friend
my friend my curse my voluntary pain my therapy
my self-injury my repetitive self-injury
repetitive red rivers running courses carefully carved
thru pale soft white flesh without thinking or feeling
dams block you in the form of scars damn scars red river
with your broken throbbing banks and your crooked paths
i am now drowning in this river becoming absorbed
into it's murky fire-colored depths but still i continue
hidden little red river my obsession
if only they travelled down your waters they would understand
Riggy