Primitive Etchings - The Dogs

Stranger rhymed with danger

Knowing nothing would change her

I chose to let her be

Just a stranger to me

Didn’t see her in years

Then out of nowhere

I wake up to find

Her body next to mine

The thin scars on her arms

Shows me how she’s been

The most primitive of etchings

In an algebra of skin

If all her prayers are heard

The past will fade away

But it is not for heaven

But for destruction that she prays

So, what are you little princess?

Monster, victim or witness?

Will I ever know

What made you loose hope

Your body’s broke, and you can’t mend it

Your life is over, but you can’t end it

Being two

Won’t rescue you

The thin scars on her arms

Shows me how she’s been

The most primitive of etchings

In an algebra of skin

If all her prayers are heard

The past will fade away

But it is not for heaven

But for destruction that she prays