Undoing

fingernails slice down my sternum,

to rend, to cleave, to break in two

my ribs, picked over, do i strum

a prettier song i do renew

hair like webs snap spider spun

my wrists, as whetstones, sharpen and crack

fingers reach in, snatch out one by one

bits of the pieces that i lack

teeth gnashing, tendering flesh

a bloody, twisted, bodily mess

of bone and heart am i

not an act of violence but of unmaking,

undoing and in it's purest sense, erasing

no sweeter mercy, no more merciful lie