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Saturated
by Melissa R. Mendelson
I don’t want to live forever.
I want something left behind.
Something to say that I was here.
Something for the world to find,
so I cut out all my trauma,
bled it from my mind.
Let it spill into the glass,
black and blue, darkness over the side.
As I bled deeper,
I grew hollow inside.
The bleeding persisted.
I tried to stop, I tried,
but I released it all,
no more left to hide.
The last to fall was my soul.
My body liquefied.
Fiction © Copyright Melissa R. Mendelson
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com
More from Melissa R. Mendelson:
Name’s Keeper
I got a one-way ticket out of hell. All I need to do is drive across country with a body in the trunk and run miscellaneous errands, but a lot of those errands come with a heavy price. And if I lose the body in the trunk, then I have to go back, and I’ll be damned if I return down there. I will fight to stay here, even if there is no rest for those wicked.
Spreading the Writer's Word 
A spooky poem, excellently written.
Thank you! 🙂
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