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One Hundred Cuts

October 14, 2014
By Anonymous

Don't look at me.

My mask is broken,

and the tears are spilling out.

Please, do not look.

My eyes give away the demons in my heart.

They want to be seen,

by the thin white lines on my skin.

They punish me for my faults.

I laughed too loud.

One cut.

I'm ugly.

Two cuts.

I'm fat.

Three cuts.

Four.

I don't deserve to live.

Five.

Six.

Seven to ten.

Do you see me now?

Eleven.

I am broken.

Thirteen.

I am the definition of

IMPERFECTION.

Sixteen.

Now you see me.

Twenty.

Are you scared?

Thirty.

Disgusted?

Forty.

You're locking me in a white-walled prison with no escape.

Fifty.

You think I'm crazy.

So do I.

Sixty.

So, I ask this:

Do you still think you know me?

Seventy.

One hundred.


The author's comments:

This poem is very close to me because I had problems with self-harm and bullying, and though recovery is rough, I'm slowly getting better, and this poem depicts what I went through before recovery.


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