Ink
CW: Gender Dysphoria, Blood/Cutting Imagery
There’s other in your skin.
it’s yelling really loud
It crawls across
your photograph
You don’t know how it got there,
cut
in
to your signature
Where did all this noise come from
they say it’s in your blood
in your
Cells
But the cuts all come up red ink
not your own.
Beaten
from another heart.
You think it’s in the walls.
Peers through the mirror
whi sper s in y our e yes
|Remember the taste of blood in your ears.|
Drips and
Drops they stain your clothes
Presses into your throat (tie it up)
Suffocates your chest (hold it down)
Cuts b*tw**n y**r l*gs (burn it with Pride)
quiet (now)
.
..
but outside
…..
.
They can still hear it
The yelling in your skin
It’s so loud
can hear it even far
away.
It calls a name
And they all hear it too.
After all
they put it in your skin
About the Creator
Aoife McAndless-Davis
I like writing about the experiences of young LGBTQIA+ people. And maybe some other stuff too. Pronouns: they/them
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