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Don’t You Wish You Could Cut Yourself Out of Your Skin? MAG
sometimes I feel as if
my soul
is trapped inside
tangles of ruthless
rugged bone
wrapped in a
blanket of thick
sandpaper skin
these muscles have
a mind of their own
their fingers shove
food down my
throat and
drag blades
across my skin
I feel that if I
could just slit open
my belly
unwrap my thick
wool of skin
pull out my stuffing
and untangle
my bones
my soul could
stretch its legs
and yawn
and finally be free
happy even
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Also I would not say that your mind is disturbed, your discription is but that is to portray the extremety of it and to make the poem have an impact; how you feel is up to you but it is not disturbing, it is merely natural as a lot of people go through the same thing within the modern world.