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Like A Hot Knife Through Butter
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TITLE (EDIT)
Like A Hot Knife Through Butter |
DESCRIPTION
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[281 words] |
AUTHOR
Rae |
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Scars were her poison
always ugly in day
ripped her own heart out
as if to say:
sing not to me
I care not at all
I am who I'll be
or I'll be not at all
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AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES (66)
A World With You (Poetry) - [49 words]
After Dark (Poetry) I used to really like the nighttime... [74 words]
As Bad As I Make It (Poetry) - [51 words]
Bad Answers (Poetry) It's ok on the surface. [60 words]
Beauty Of Horror (Poetry) - [87 words]
Begging Forgiveness (Poetry) - [60 words]
Broken Tears (Songs) Had a weird afternoon... inspired a song... I hope this one is less confusing to everyone than the last one I posted! [279 words]
Canyon (Poetry) More adventures in cutting. [18 words]
Caress (Poetry) Took excerpts from In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan and The Knife by Richard Selzer and made them into a poem. really focused on style in this one... [76 words]
Comfort (Poetry) - [120 words]
Coming Together (Poetry) For now I am calling it a work in progress, but would appreciate feedback on whether it sounds incomplete or not. [109 words]
Daybreak (Poetry) - [75 words]
Devil Screams (Songs) I don't like it. maybe you will. or maybe i'll just delete it tomorrow. [130 words]
Doomed To Be Free And Fanciful (Poetry) - [75 words]
For Leah (Poetry) Because I now know why one isn't sainted until after death. [61 words]
Forcing Eternity (Poetry) I'm so impatient. [93 words]
Getting Ahead (Songs) Well, if you can't get ahead in life, you choose the next best thing, perhaps... [206 words]
Going Down (Poetry) - [224 words]
Hand-In-Hand (Poetry) - [53 words]
I Hate Making Titles 2 (Songs) Song. [128 words]
Identity (Poetry) - [134 words]
In Time (Poetry) A real enough place. [99 words]
Lawrence (Poetry) The [brief] story of a man. [95 words]
Like Waking (Poetry) - [86 words]
Likely (Poetry) - [62 words]
Losing (Poetry) - [103 words]
Mirror Games (Poetry) - [135 words]
My Lamb (Songs) Not sure what it is... I call it a song only because I sang it while I wrote it... but it could quite possibly be a poem, too. The way it's sung, it's sweet and smooth when it starts, then gets faster... [71 words]
My Last Night With Her (Short Stories) A quick story. [448 words]
My Soul Is A Hole (Poetry) - [92 words]
Needless (Poetry) - [60 words]
Never Let Me Go (Songs) - [311 words]
Nothing But Touch (Short Stories) Haven't had inspiration lately, so I picked ten random words and wrote around them. [239 words]
Ode To Losing Late Nights (Poetry) Stupid ramblings about losing stuff ... like the love of your life ... [90 words]
Once I Hit The Ground (Poetry) - [99 words]
Passion's Ruins (Poetry) - [56 words]
People (Poetry) A little mindlessness. [41 words]
Please Every Night (Poetry) Don't wake me up. [72 words]
Raven (Poetry) - [83 words]
Released (Poetry) - [37 words]
Ringing Of War (Songs) Just a song... [204 words]
Rodents And Reptiles (Poetry) - [68 words]
Schism (Songs) I posted this before, but it disappeared somehow... it's a song kind of like "not my god" which I wrote a while ago.. I suppose you could call it part 2. [269 words]
Silent Stalker (Poetry) - [59 words]
Sisters (Poetry) - [80 words]
Slave (Poetry) You decide who/what it's about... [58 words]
Smooth White Plastic (Poetry) - [113 words]
So Bold A Man (Poetry) Inspired by one of the many amazing paintings by Zdislaw Beksinski who just recently passed away. (http://www.novumgallery.pl/beksinski/bex4.html) [72 words]
Soft (Poetry) - [115 words]
Someone Without You (Poetry) I despise trying to do this. [84 words]
Summer Song (Poetry) It comes and goes on its own accord... [120 words]
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Taking Control Of What Is Mine (Poetry) - [32 words]
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The Best Of Me (Poetry) - [202 words]
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The Wild Flee (Short Stories) An ode to imaginary friends. [471 words]
The Worst Thing (Poetry) - [83 words]
Think Of Me (Poetry) I cry so often over him lately... [169 words]
This Heart (Poetry) - [60 words]
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Tool Of The Gods (Poetry) - [104 words]
Twisted Figures (Short Stories) Just wrote it down as it came to mind.. no sense or anything :) [294 words]
Ultimately At Your Service (Poetry) - [82 words]
Unrest (Poetry) Another short one. [28 words]
Wschod Slonca Krwawy (Poetry) - [95 words]
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Like A Hot Knife Through Butter
Rae
Do you know what it feels like to have pain as heavy as bricks pull at your heart every night? You say you do, but that was only a couple times. That was when your fiance dumped you and your grandmother died. Imagine her dying every night. Imagine yourself dying every night.
Do you slice open your flesh when you're sad? It's instinctive, isn't it? A long time ago you forgot how to cry, so you bled instead.
But it's not only then.
When you're bored.
When you're angry.
When you're nervous.
When you can't sleep, you pull out the razor.
Some call you compulsive. Others think you're stupid. Others are horrified by the ragged exterior that could once effectively be called your skin.
So you bottle it up. You say that nothing is wrong until you're found with a darling river of blood flowing down the length of your arm and twisting around your wrist.
The pain has always been this obvious, hasn't it?
"Nothing is wrong." It slips off your tongue just as easily as the metal slid
like a hot knife through butter.
How poetic it had looked. The scarlet against your pale, pale skin. You close your ears to the screams. The screams sliding from your throat, so desperate to be alone. Nothing is wrong.
Leave you be?
Isn't that just the thing you're upset about?
How it must have looked, so much blood.
It will go unnoticed tonight that you heard them hope you'd hang yourself. Oh how many burdens would then be lifted? Their poor shoulders, bearing so much weight.
It will go unnoticed that you have this pain.
Tonight your only role is that of the coward. The hider. The insufferable cutter.
Leave you be
In your misery.
And as you hide
You'll let it slide...
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"I want to first express my deepest thanks for publishing work like this one, i know what it is to feel so hurt on the inside, that your only release is when a blade is in your hand saying what your words can't. This alike all your writting is outstanding and powerful..." -- Rebecca Tantos.
"Theres nothing more to say as rebecca has said it all, all i can do is echo." -- Josh / Axey.
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STORYMANIA PUBLICATION DATE
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