I’m a warrior and a survivor,
I turn my pain into
whatever I have to turn it into,
to push through.
I am there for the people I love
and I rise again and again
to help those,
that just need a little kindness.
I am tired, I am bleeding out,
I’m irrevocably scarred.
I don’t want to just survive,
I don’t want to have to keep
picking up my sword.
I keep taking hit after hit,
I’m getting a taste for my own blood.
I feel my bones breaking,
and my psyche and soul shattering.
This isn’t rock bottom,
this is six feet under.
I’m not living, I’m coping.
and I don’t know
how much longer
the taste of my own blood
will save me.
I am becoming a monster.
I am becoming dangerous.
I am breathing fire.
If I don’t fall apart and die,
I may develop a taste
for someone else’s blood.
I need to live,
and I don’t remember how.