How does one accept the infinity of desire?
How does one cope with limitless longing?
Will we ever be enough to satisfy our demons?
Or will we forever search for a nonexistent perfection?
This shell I am encased by is inferior to its inhabitant,
A crumbling sleeve scarred by illness and disrepair,
Limited by injury and steeped with ugliness, a shame
Distilled through the weakness of this aging vessel.
A human body.
I long to peel away my skin, strip by strip, revealing the
Bloody vascular system beneath, to see if there is anything
Beautiful hidden there, anything to combat the revulsion I feel
Every time I look in the mirror and witness my vulnerability.
A human body.
DNA dictates my every decision, a cocktail of chemicals and
Hormones trickling over the grooves of my skull, an invisible
Vice crushing budding dreams and binding me to this body,
Reducing me to a marionette lying in a pool of her own tears.
A human body.
Each breath expelled consumes another grain of sand in my
Hourglass, borrowed time flowing between my fingers, time
That refuses to slow, time that ravages my dreams until I am
An empty husk, picking up the broken pieces of my legacy.
A human body.
There are versions of myself that I may never meet again and
Pieces that have long since fallen through the cracks, lost to
History. I may mourn for them but my grief is inconsequential.
I will forever crave more, but for now, this human body will have to be
Enough.
- Author: audraburwell ( Offline)
- Published: August 11th, 2022 10:04
- Category: Unclassified
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