A Scab
I can see a scab hanging loosely on my skin
and deep in my heart I know this is one battle I cannot win.
Upon my skin it mocks me, a blemish and a pain.
As I stare at it, my resolve and strength begin to wane.
My hand subconsciously reaches over and beings to pick
and scatch at the scab, obsessed like an addict.
And the pain I feel is nothing compared to the pleasure,
the sick, twisted pleasure that increases without measure.
The scab falls off, the skin underneath is bare,
and begins to bleed and drips to the ground as I stare.
The pleasure is gone in an instant, lost to the agony,
and I regret the choice I made, the choice of villainy.
Opening the wound is generally agreed to slow the heal,
and it is best repaired if left alone to seal.
But I cannot stop myself from picking the scab
and by doing so, it is as if into a wound I stab.
I know it leaves nothing but pain and misery as we saw
and I know I cannot resist the urge to pick and to claw.
And though the scab was old and almost healed,
it is my soul that through it I peeled.
and deep in my heart I know this is one battle I cannot win.
Upon my skin it mocks me, a blemish and a pain.
As I stare at it, my resolve and strength begin to wane.
My hand subconsciously reaches over and beings to pick
and scatch at the scab, obsessed like an addict.
And the pain I feel is nothing compared to the pleasure,
the sick, twisted pleasure that increases without measure.
The scab falls off, the skin underneath is bare,
and begins to bleed and drips to the ground as I stare.
The pleasure is gone in an instant, lost to the agony,
and I regret the choice I made, the choice of villainy.
Opening the wound is generally agreed to slow the heal,
and it is best repaired if left alone to seal.
But I cannot stop myself from picking the scab
and by doing so, it is as if into a wound I stab.
I know it leaves nothing but pain and misery as we saw
and I know I cannot resist the urge to pick and to claw.
And though the scab was old and almost healed,
it is my soul that through it I peeled.
12/21/13