One And The Same

• Emily Hague, Grade 9, All Saints College - St Peter's Campus
• Poetry
• 2022

Finalist in the 'Unleashed 2022' competition

I feel your bones trembling beneath my skin;
hidden beneath rivulets of seeping crimson liquid.
My heart is purified with pain,
and it seeps soullessly, soundlessly.
The flesh is torn open around my mind.
To allow you a glimpse would be a fruitless sacrifice.
Trails of warmth flee from my eyes,
caught in the diversion that is your own sight.
Shallow breaths are taken,
The stealing of what was consignation.
You feel monachopsis beneath my skin.
I surrender the sensation of sight.
My beacon, my deity, refuge,
cut from the same indistinguishably tattered cloth.
Were you not as utterly ruined as me,
would I have had you at all?