I bleed, red blood. Dark like love, thick like bitterness. And it means that I am real, even if most of my feelings are dead or gone.
I love, bright and hot, and it makes me lucky. Because I know I'm bitter and hateful, but there's still that little spark even if none can be spared for myself.
I have scars that prove all this and more. Scars he left on my heart, scars she carved through my trust, scars they left on my body, scars I sliced into my skin.
My bruises make me more than just alive, they make me more than real. They make me here.
They prove I don't know what I'm doing, that I am biased and angry and feeling, even though sometimes I forget that I can feel anything besides hate.
I forget and I hate myself and I forget more.
Because forgetting makes it easy, because it's hard to remember.
It's hard being real and alive and here.
I see the scars and I remember and I see your face and I remember and I think of who I am and I remember, remember, remember.
It hurts. It hurts, hurts, hurts, as if I'm setting my insides on fire.
But.
But then I breathe and it makes me remember.
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