KBD'S WORLD

Pain Surrounds me,
I am trapped in
The walls of my mind.
Silent Screams
And Whispering Yells
Of sweet desperation
A mind gone mad.
Images of swirling
Horror, insanity, and Blood
Dripping from every pore.
Voices overwhelm me,
Stifling my every thought.
A needle full of death,
Soothes my broken spirit.


CUTTING

I cut myself,
Because I feel
Dead Inside.
Blood makes me
Feel real.
I don't
Understand
How I feel
Until I Cut:
The deeper,
The Better.
Blood understands,
Blood knows the pain,
And Failure of
My many Choices.


DEPRESSION

Mood Swings,
Hatred and Insight
Suicide
Blood Running
Pouring
So Much Red
Everywhere
Dripping
Staining
Draining
From My
Pale White
Wrists, Finding
Its Way To the Cold
Floor, Where It
Slowly Gels.



BLOOD STAINS

MY blood stains
The floor, the walls
My heart, and clothes.
Blood Stains
Memories, hands,
And Foreign Lands.
Blood stains,
Scrub and Scrub,
But to no avail,
Scrub and Scrub,
But you will fail.
Blood Stains
All that it touches
Or falls upon.
MY BLOOD STAINS.

     - Kayla


Work of Art
Poem by the mother of a young cutter.
Letter from a Cutter
One cutter has bravely penned a letter of goodbye to cutting.
Letter from Dylan
A cutter's letter to other cutters.
Chinese Medicine and Self Harm
A potential direction for healing and recovery.
Poem by a Cutter
The Cut by Shawna
Jen Eraser Cutlet by Jennie
Poem by a Cutter named Lissa
Pixie Cutter and My Road Happiness by Mary
Ouch and World War 3 by Anna
A Girl and Her Knife by Lucy
Poem by a 15 year old Cutter named Janette
Painless Pain
Nothing Left and Guilt by Helle Marie, born 1984
Poem by a Cutter
Silver Blade by Shawna
The Razor
Two poems by KeyserSzze
Four poems by ~Exacta
Self Mutilation and Surrender
Cuts by Angel
Broken Child by Kathy B.
Hidden by Kim
Cutters: An essay about cutting by Cutting Blade.
Ritual by the weeping wanderer.
Poems by Kitty.
Scars by Amanda.
Savage gift by Dylan.
KBD's World by Kayla.
Three Poems by Sara.
Where to Turn by the Gentle Giant
Two Poems by Kara
Shaggy Red Carpet by Megan, age 15.
Fallen by Mey
untitled poem by Ashton
Razors Edge by A.M.
scratches and poetry by The Phoenix Princessa
Sweet Release by Patti
Choices by Kayla
Pain by Adrian
two poems by Erica
Walled In by Anonymous
"Do you" by Sarah, age 15
poem by anonymous
Confetti by Aileen
razorbladebloodstainedmirror and i snap out by Ashton
Three Poems by Jarod
Five Poems by Pryncess Crys

I welcome the contributions of others who self-harm or have done so in the past. Send us your writing, or arrange to send us your art or music by e-mailing RAZOR at zanne@cea.edu

Check out SCAR, a zine on the subject of scars and self-harm.
The content of these pages may contain "triggering" material.
to CUTTERS, a page on the subject of people who self-harm.
The content of these pages may contain "triggering" material.
to The History of Child Abuse
Contents Under Pressure Razor's writing about experiences she had during a 13 year bout with DSH and five times she was institutionalized.
to Leap Frogge Leap was locked up in mental institutions when she was a kid. Leap refers to them as "the Institutes."