ix. ascension.

[bisaltse]

wretched.
with my fingers digging in
nails pulling up my own skin
as if i'm aching to
get way down deep
past the tissue
to the veins

as if i wanted to find
out, very personally

what the stuff of
my veins is like- I
wanted to tell you

i've got invisible words
tattooed on the skin
scraped off in my fingertips
and if I was
able to, i'd try

real hard to touch you
with them
and forgive me for not
trying harder when it
really counted-

i didn't see any red lights at the time.