Shards of a dry skinned face
Shiven Srivastava 2004 (Winn)
A face in the mirror stares at me demanding more
I glare my dry skinned face down
Suddenly, the lustrous glass shatters into one hundred and one shards
I watch in terror as each one starts writhing violently
They change form, becoming something alive
They rise in the air and wait, each one examining me like prey
They zoom towards me, their vampiric thoughts blocking the sound of my screams
Slicing my dry skin and my eyes, they take and take and take
Feasting on my veins, my life
Boiling tears and drops of crimson roll down my pores, but they don’t give two fucks
They keep coming for me, demanding one hundred and one percent
Balled up in the corner of my endless prison of torture, free of windows or doors
No lion covered man will ever come to save me
To save me from my dry skinned face
About this poem
I wrote this poem abou my unsatisfiable perfectionism.
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Written on July 01, 2022
Submitted by Shiven428 on July 19, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 797 |
Words | 150 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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