Rip, rip, rip
your skin, blood and bones.
Be naked for once,
it sucks I know, to
shed these layers.
But when you know you must
and a time as such will come
it always does,
do it.
Do it because it may
not come back ever, and
you will not know
the one thing that you must.
And it will be the thing
that you have always been seeking.
It will be the poison at the base of your identity.
It will be the stench you wake up to every morning.
It will be the only thing that will ever
be worth knowing.
But like me, don’t do it when you’re drunk
don’t do it when you’re high,
don’t do it when you are out in your porch
at 3AM on a cold Maine winter night
chain smoking cigars thinking
“I don’t have the balls to kill myself swiftly
So I will do it 10gms of smoke at a time.”
Don’t do it then, because
it will be easy.
If and when you do it,
you will stop to question, to doubt
to frame reasons, contradictions, falsehoods;
and the more of these you find, the
closer you are to the nude.
Perhaps, when you see it
you will hate it.
But at least, you will know.
Rip, rip, rip
your skin, blood and bones.
Rip your pretenses,
and I mean it.
Rip your charming niceness,
and I mean it.
Oh! It will be hard, I know it.
But,
you
must.
Rip, rip, rip
your skin, blood and bones.
You will find there hidden the one secret
that otherwise you will always seek –
You will seek it in friends,
You will seek it in family,
You will seek it in liquor
You will seek it in drugs
You will seek it in love
You will seek it in sex
You will seek it until
It kills you, or you it –
and then it will all be in vain.
So, start now, if you know what I am talking about
and I know you know.
Rip, rip, rip
your skin, blood and bones.
Go in and grab
who you are.
Then decide if you want to
let it
Live, or
Die.
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