Challenge
Write about physical or emotional pain without using the word pain at all.
Sanguine Rivers of Life Forgotten
Beholding on high from mountainous heap
of garbage emotion, I see subliminal messages
flash then fade away into a nothing mist -
no visible wounds or scars but bitter cold at heart.
Hollow memories burrow like deranged chiggers
with foul slivered eyes pulsing deprivation,
leaving jagged marks upon my soul in anguish weeds.
I remove your fierce mask and see your festered blisters
as I bleed out in sanguine rivers of life forgotten,
pulsing wounds of dwindling life force nourishment.
Churning waves of a screaming ocean of angst
witness my slow, tortured death, throbbing last gasp.
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