Where To Turn



Each Day Turns Hollow Like The Last,
A Bright Pomise Fading Fast.
Empty Face's turn to see,
That Life was never meant for me.

What's Life Worth When you hear,
Family is Just a word to fear.
When Those you trusted to help you Heal
Abandon you to lady luck's foul deal.

My hopes and dreams mean Nothing,
When Eclipsed by Pains Coming.
Pain placed Deep in My Soul,
Set Free By Betrayal's Toll.

Where to turn When Anger strikes you?,
When Love of peace fights you?
What to do when all you know is a lie?
Leaving you nothing to do but die.

Where to turn when hope's last blossom fades
Who to trust when truths painful vision trades?
Hope for defeat, Trust for fear and love for pain.
How hard it is to make death stand tall and plain.

Sweet Oblivion. The Eternal Sleep. Forever to leave.
Sweet words for that which courage fails to acheive.
For that which wisdom fears while pain desires
Is the simple truth that sets the heavens afire.

Forever to seek , Forever to yearn
Never knowing, never to learn
The key that sets you free to roam
Forever free of your embattled homes

Pain is Peace


     - The Gentle Giant


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."