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Actions vs Words

by Alexandra K. Parapadakis

(I've been struggling to show anyone this poem for a long time but I've been inspired to let it free. These feelings are behind me now and it turns out writing was to thank for that afterall)

 

How does someone stop cutting?
Do they cut into the paper instead?
Replace flesh and blood with diaries and ink,
Replace physicality with mentality,
Replace actions with words,

It isn’t enough.

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Saturday 13th September 2014 11:35 am

Actions   art   coping   depression   emotional   release   self harm   words   writing

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