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Stitches by `Flutterings:iconFlutterings:

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Stitches

Her name is Stitches and I love her.
She doesn't belive that - she says it is an improbability.
She doesn't say impossibility and that gives me hope.

No one but me knows why she's called Stitches.

I've run my hands over her soft white skin,
Flushed with the fevers of midnight.
I've touched it.

I've let my fingertips explore the hitches in her skin,
Where her body couldn't quite heal itself.

Old memories of gaping holes and vicious lies.

From her shoulder to her wrist,
From her knee to her ankle,
Any where she can negotiate a knife - she is Stitches.

It makes her cry sometimes.
She says she doesn't like being a rag doll any more.

They're old scars, robbing her flesh of its innocence,
Betraying her old soul - etching it out - a tally on her skin.

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She draws a thick red line under everything
and tries to start again.

She doesn't like to be touched some nights,
I see her paper skin crawling at my soft kisses
and roll over to feign sleep.

It's not her fault, the pain of the scars won't fade,
The scars that the stitches can't mend.


Her name is Stitches and I love her.
The girl with the Frankensteined heart.
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Dedicated to all the Stitches - every last one of you.

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~sillylittlenothings Nov 6, 2008, 3:11:42 PM
this is really deep. it hits deep <3
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~beauty-sleeps Nov 6, 2008, 5:13:36 PM
wow. i definitely know someone like that.
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~nihonjinkittahn Nov 6, 2008, 5:20:10 PM
I feel it.

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*Wicked Dangerous!!*
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~Neroshadow Nov 6, 2008, 5:48:00 PM
Wow very interesting and deep poem
I enjoyed it very much
Great work
:iconshadow-moonseye:
~Shadow-Moonseye Nov 6, 2008, 5:50:48 PM
Wow. This is just...wow. The ending is perfect. Such a powerful message... Definentally a fav.

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Oderunt dum Metuant!
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*Darqueness Nov 6, 2008, 7:31:45 PM
Awesome sis!!!

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I find myself alone, again and again, and yet still I naively hope this nightmare will one day end. ~ Crys ~
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~ketsurakuame Nov 6, 2008, 10:06:36 PM
beautiful. that was very amazing, it made me think.. ya know?

*haha, maybe not, but if you could know, then you would know what i was talking about.. but it definatally made me think. Thank you.*

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DanceYourHeartOut
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*fashioning-gods Nov 6, 2008, 10:47:23 PM
good poem....... you are very contrite (dont take that as an insult)

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"One mans heart; should be another mans problem"
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~shiorisama Nov 6, 2008, 10:49:17 PM
Its beautiful

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please take a look at my [link]

"Spurn me, strike me, neglect me, leave me, but give me leave unworthy as I am to follow you!"
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