Let me paint you a picture

Let me paint you a picture

Let me paint you a picture.

Let me use my prettiest colors:

pink for my glasses, brown for my eyes,

red for the twisting organs inside.

Let me paint you a picture:

a lonely girl, skin mapped with marks.

I can heal you, you’ll be perfect,

he whispers to his lucky stars.

Someone so beautifully broken—

his hunger to ruin newly awoken.

Let me paint you a picture:

what if we sketch your despair?

Reenact every nightmare,

let him see, let him stare.

Let him touch, let him consume—

That’s his magic cure.

Let me paint you a picture:

shards ground into dust,

only red stains the floor

oxidizing slowly into rust.

Let me paint you a picture

Soft skin becomes scar tissue,

nothing left untouched,

nothing left unused.

Let me paint you a picture—

He’s the one holding the brush.

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