Explain

Co-dependence
Stop thinking
colossal bitch, don't forget
Pull down your sleeves
Try to keep warm, even if your
Soul has frozen over.
Your calve is itchy.
You dont scratch.
You dont even feel it.
You are numb.
Hold you hand over the candles flame.
Feel the burn.
Watch the blister.
Let your skin shrivel as it screams in pain, and withers and dies.
It doesn't matter.
Because you are numb.
Ride the bus.
Go to class.
Sit in your chair.
See the polish on your nails.
Chip it off.
Watch it flake to the floor.
Make a list
Of different kinds of people.
New, forgotten, annoying, honest.
Tear the page.
Crumple the paper.
Feel its rejection
its failure
its mistakes
As you toss it into your bag.
Pass a friend in the hall.
They can't understand
So don't even try.
And even if they could comprehend,
Do you think you could explain ?

By JK