When you cut yourself to feel alive,
are you claiming to know what is real?
Are you selfish enough to proclaim you are more important
than your counterparts?

You can make your own decisions, it is your life afterall, but
if you choose to cut, choose to die.
That's a favor you owe me.

I've known enough bleeders in my life,
flowed red from their veins to my eyes.
But I have never met someone who cut through their skin and
had an unclotting stream of black.
Inside you are the same as me,
quit blaming your unwilling mentality.

I used to empathize, and
lay a helping hand.
I used to cry with you, and
offer my shoulder to absorb your pain.
I used to stand in your path to death, and
I used to give my life to save yours.

Now,
I will call your bluff and
watch you fall humbly to a bed and four white walls.

You are human,
deal with it.
You may not like it, but
you are as useless as anyone else.
No matter how "important" someone may be,
they are only a cut away from being yesterday's news.

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