A/N: This is sort of a response to a line in the poem "Parasite" by AbsolutelyAbsent (great poem, by the way) that says "Everyone says my family's strong/ for putting up with me/ perhaps they are, but there's no scars/ on them that I can see." I understand her point, but the families and friends of cutters suffer a lot, and they have their own problems. So without further rambling:

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She thinks she's so tormented

It's not just her who hurts

The cutting's not the issue

It's a symptom of the curse

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My parents flock around her

And leave me in the cold

Her bleeding arms are worth more

Their disinterest hundredfold

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I don't wear my scars for the world to see

I don't pick up a knife and slice

My hate is buried deep within

My bitterness, my secret vice

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She'll be fine in a year or so

When she manages to quit

I can't stop resenting her

And her stupid urge to nick and slit

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I'm the daisy no-one cares about

She's the thorny, dying rose

So tortured and afflicted

I'm the only who knows

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Since I felt how she feels

And I stifled what she screams

And I know that pain

Because I have dreamed her dreams

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I have no release

For the scars across my mind

It would finally break my parents

So I try not to whine

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I am stronger than I was

Before I took on this pain

I am colder and I'm harder

And I'm practically insane

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I hide it-so-well

And I get sympathetic smiles

But they're all for Megan

And I swallow down my bile

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I was there that night

But I just never told

I watched Violet die the same

And this farce is getting old

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I am just as scarred

And I carry hate as well

She thinks she is alone

But I saw the gate to hell

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I haven't shed a tear since then

Not even at the funeral

My sister's friend was dead

My eyes never even pulled

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She can't stop hurting her body

And I can't control my hate

I wonder who is hurting more

And what will be our fate?

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She is getting help

And I am on the outside

Her soul is all scratched up

And mine has simply died

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I was typing this while listening to "Girl Anachronism" so it took a couple tries…but there should be no typos.