Need anything? Email info@theprose.com! 

Refer a non-Prose. writer to join Prose. Black Pill, email proof and we will send each of you $10!

PostsChallengesPortalsAuthorsBooks
Sign Up
Log In
Posts
Challenges
Portals
Authors
Books
beta
Sign Up
Log In
Search
Poetry & Free Verse
Challenge Ended
Something Ugly
Show me something raw and honest. Gut wrenching and sick. Heavy and drenched in emotion. The poem that packs the most punch wins.
Ended February 24, 2020 • 24 Entries • Created by mosquito
Challenge
Something Ugly
Show me something raw and honest. Gut wrenching and sick. Heavy and drenched in emotion. The poem that packs the most punch wins.
Profile avatar image for Margot
Margot in Poetry & Free Verse

A Thousand Cuts

Death by a thousand cuts

has always sang to me.

It sings to me because I have lived that death and survived.

My love and I whittled my body away

until the lifeblood pooled on the floor

and my heart could not beat anymore.

As my eyes closed for the last time,

I heard myself say

I love you.

I love you no matter what you do.

You can bloody and bruise me,

tear my heart in two,

but I still love you.

I am different now

and have made a vow

that I will never allow myself to be

cut down again.

But some dark nights

as I walk the lonely road home

I find myself wishing for

death by a thousand cuts.

@mosquito

You have read your one article for the month.
Sign up for Prose. to read an extra article for free.
I am 21 years or older.