Annika Bentley - A Spreading Stain

Like a river, like a tree
Like my veins are growing out of me
Does it seal you up inside?
Does it keep the wolves away?
Do you touch these sewn-on lines
To see what's left of you today?

I found a worm growing on my skin
And the harder I scratch, the deeper it digs in
Like an undesired map, we mark the passing time
In flesh with tiny rivulets and the scars of carving knives

Like a second spine, a highway to the brain
You can shout out all you like and it gets there just the same
Does it pierce your every thought
Are you a puppet of your own design?
Can it pump your blood for you, or help you stay immobilized?

No amount of hope undoes this damage done
Once it's nestled down inside
The parasite's as good as won
An enemy of skin, not a tumor but a spreading stain
With the highest hopes to overtake and then erase
A flashing call to arms, my body bat signal
A beacon of our enmity ensnares the less careful
I promise to resist
I swear to keep the inside in
My ears are deaf to every beat against this armored skin

As the sun is my mirror, my witness
I will burn all the skin upon my chest
Will it cut the exit off, or will you find you are your own disease?
Will you watch the pulsing breast
As you give up your autonomy?

Like a ribbon, like these trees
Like my veins are choking me
Does it seal you up inside
Does it keep the wolves away?
Do you touch these sewn-on lines
To see if you're still here today?

Written by:
Annika Bentley

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