Knife Pleasures

Grant my knife
Flesh from my knee
Feel alive as I begin to bleed
Gouge out a cross upon the thigh

I bleed out
But I’m not a man
Absorb the trauma within
Pain renders the mind alive
Today I bleed and write
Tomorrow I surrender
Nothing taken back

Convinced the knife
Knew best my mutation
Self-mutilation is my change
Bringing me back to awareness
Therein scripting pages of life
Before the circle is complete
Dying isn’t so vicious
It is my right

I bleed out
But I’m not a man
Absorb the trauma within
Pain renders the mind alive
Today I bleed and write
Tomorrow I surrender
Nothing taken back