Throats are shredded with words swallowed unsaid

Each word is a piece of glass gulped down

Choking on useless comebacks in reverse

Metallic tasting droplets bitterly ingested

Wrists bearing grooves of darkened red

Arms evidencing jagged knife sketching

Fingertips freckled by pricking thorns

Bodies wounded fresh with deepened scars

Blackened wisps opaque behind the eyes

Deteriorated pieces of soulless slivers

Receding whiteness of sky cotton

Saturating parched dust's evaporation

Clotted by the venom of spiders and snakes

Pale white skin indicates significant blood loss

Holes in veins revealing where it was removed

A crack appears followed by a tiny trickle of red

Blank body canvas splattered red and peppered black

Deep bruises linger though the surface has cleared

Just underneath the outer layer a red river flows

Intertwined forging the dark side of man