one more word & you won't survive

out in the center line
cars passing by on either side
nobody is looking at you.
nobody sees you peeling back your layers
peeling and tearing at your skin

 until your stomach is a gaping hole,
the white hot energy coursing into the different channels in your body
your veins frayed, nerve endings jagged like wires
ivory cage struggling to keep it all in

you pull off different parts of yourself until you're too fragile
and you scatter them all across the pavement
ashes raining down like confetti, catching in the wind, feathers
nobody is looking at you as your knees become one with the ground
with a crack, splintering your bones
blood trickles in strings

 and you're desperate for them to see, screaming at them to see
and simultaneously hiding behind your fingers so they can't
so they can't see what you're doing to yourself
what would they think?

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