I Decorate

by Callen Damornen

I decorate.

It's just a mark.

A little decoration,

A statement of how I feel.

Does it hurt?

Compared to what?

Will you understand it?

Not unless you walked in my shoes.

Get it out of my head

Write it out on my skin.

I slash it out loud.

I slash it alone.

I hide the pain.

I'm not alone

But in this I am.

You cannot enter my domain

You cannot feel my pain.

I want to stop the need

But it is always there

Somewhere in the back

It keeps coming to haunt

I slash

I decorate.

© 2008 Callen Damornen