2. 3. 08
I exist.
I know it
Because I feel pain
The agony as I kill myself.
The luxurious curves are cut away
No more nonsense, I tell myself unmercifully
Wielding the evil knife shaped like an endless clock.
I become limited, beauty-less, shapeless, frill-less
I get smaller, thinner, transparent
As the excess layers fall
To planes and angles.
Cut, cut, cut,
Dying.
Go on,
Shave the head
Glory is a farce anyway.
Slice away the smooth skin,
Reveal what truly lies beneath
The humanity, the blood, the bone.
What is normally distributed
Into bell-shaped curves
Lies not in me, since
I am an outlier
Dying.
Breathing
While life leaves
Becomes so difficult.
What is actually normal?
I cannot know reality
Until I fully let go
Of myself.
Cut, cut, cut
Until I exist without pain
Despairing, I might as well be dead…
And marvelous things begin to happen inside.
A woman is born and flowers from within the ghost
The cadaver vanishes to give place to a lovely joyful bride
Beauty transforms the vile slime into translucence
A heart of flesh replaces the vicious bitter rock.
But then, it is the end of the world…
My time has come, since
I am no more.
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February 3rd, 2008 at 1:42 pm
I tried to create the visual effect of each stanza being a bell-shaped curve. It begins a certain size and gradually shrink as the writer dies, then grows as hope is born.
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Symbolically-emo-nerd? haha. nice effect.
February 4th, 2008 at 11:35 am
i like the bell curve. that’s cool.