Li Yanmey

Scars on my wrists don’t ache

Scars on my wrists don’t ache;

They remind me I felt the pain.

Scars on my wrists don’t ache,

And sometimes I want to turn it all back.

 

Just sometimes.

 

I know I would scratch them again.

I know I would like these feelings.

I know I’ll fall in love with pain

The next time, like more times before.

 

This point of no return.

 

Nobody told me what’s good for me.

Nobody noticed what I felt that time.

Like a girl with mousy hair,

I was alone and thought it was gone.

 

I was naive, I know; I was too young

To realize I’m nothing for them.

Since my childhood, I have brought all my pain

In my heart, which often aches.

 

Scars on my wrists don’t ache,

Just remind me who I am now.

Scars on my wrists don’t ache.

But my soul aches, and it drives me crazy.