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Success and Failure

October 4, 2010
By silver_moonlit10 PLATINUM, Ashburn, Virginia
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I take the knife
And push it in
Slide it across
And breathe with
The sting

Success
I got blood
A few drops on my skin

Failure
I got blood
I hate what I'm doing
I loathe the need

I breathe easier after
I have what I want
My punishment
The beauty of hurt

I hurt me
I hurt you
I kill a little every time
I die

Please kill me

© Peter G., Glenburn, ME

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S M Wells said...
on Oct. 15 2010 at 5:14 pm
This is not a critisisem, I just thought I aught to tell, end the end, death never helps. The only way for things to get better is to live them out. And don't dwell on the past. It is not that I have anymore insight, It took me my life up till now to figure this out. And I'm still leaning it.