Ne'er a scar my skin did bare,

Imperfections I thought I'd never wear,

Until the day I saw your face

And longed for your perfect soul to taste.

I scraped my knee, this much is true

And gained my scar by falling for you.

This indentation upon my knee,

I gladly wear it all for thee.

there's a comet on my forehead

because i fell all too much like a shooting star

and five orbits hadn't dulled the pleasant burn of entering the atmosphere too fast.

there's a black hole on my left knee

because of miscalculated trajectories and an astronaut's refusal to abandon burning ships.

the asteroid between the third and the final joints of my fingers has been worn smooth

where once i picked it raw again and again and

i'm torn between excitement and disbelief that one of the few marks left by you is fading

My body lacks scars.

Besides blemishes and mishaps,

I appear clean.

But I feel your breath on my shoulders and while it's just air it feels like the weight of one thousand lives.

I feel where your hands have touched me

-you left trails like a slug

And while they are not visible

I feel your slime and I retch in disgust.

I don't know how but you left scars on my brain matter that no amount of apothecaries can cure

-their most nostalgic remedies can't paint you in a good light

I wish I could shed this skin, like the locust that I am.

For I am a plague, the bible itself told me.

Why you would waste your time to implement marks on something so unworthy…

I don't bother myself to figure out.

Scars track my journey

scabs and wounds crater struggle

raw pockmarks of life

disfigured forever

wounds from my blood

bandaged by damage

trampled by hordes

blotches tarnished and twisted

mangling of soul

targeted for hurt

by swift arrows of past

but I beg for healing

it’s long overdue

my scars have become

proud badges of honor

for I have survived

my blisters of pain.

Theres a scar on my arm

From heelys gone wrong

Every scar on my face

Is a time and a place

Where ive given in

To the monster within

Says to scratch and to pick

Til im down to the quick

And the blood runs red

And the blood runs red