BLEEDING OUT

Oh that I could rend the flesh to ribbons

Outer portrait of the condition of my soul

Eager death

For freedoms sake

Release the grief held captive in my heart

For claws to rip the tender flesh

Consumed in fire

Cut to ribbons

Oh for release from the pain

That my heart daily walks in

For freedom from the pain

Like heaviness upon bruised skin

Like salt within an open wound

Oh to claw within my breast

And wrench the tattered soul within

To sever arteries torn from flesh

Crimson flood

Pool of blood

Upon the floor

For pain and grief cohabit

No release for me

Imprisoned by duty

Shackled by right

I cannot rip the flesh deep enough

Cannot rend the tissue wide enough

To extract the tattered soul that lies within