POEM STARTER
Submitted by Margaret Sok
Cleansing
Write a poem inspired by this theme.
Relapse
Congratulations you’re clean
But you never are, are you?
Never holding back from a though to cut
Or an urge to do it once more.
The longer you wait the faster the clock ticks
Ringing when you’ll relapse.
The fate of stopping never crosses your path
Just the image of being able to,
but not wanting to.
Being clean is just a mindset right?
Relapse until it’s right.
Relapse until you’re clean.
Relapse until those deep red cuts start to turn white.
Relapse until you hold your blood by a towel
Alone in the darkness.
Relapse until it’s enough, until you’ve done it.
You can stop whenever you want.
But you don’t want to, do you?
If you did you wouldn’t have cut up your thighs
Your arms
Your stomach
Your everywhere.
If you really wanted to be clean you would use sharpeners as meant to be used.
If you wanted to be clean you wouldn’t cut before you showered so you could feel the stinging of your actions.
But you don’t.
You’re never truly clean, just taking a break from relapsing.
Relapse until
Until
Until the urge goes away
If it ever will.