Emotion


why do i hurt so badly
i want to cry so sadly
Please beat me down to bring me up
i feel used yet abused.
i mistrust all, it may be my great fall
for now i am gone, under the knife
no more i wonder about death for he is knocking at my door.
My god there is so much blood on the floor.
i feel like it's so hard to say how i feel even to this day
The cold edge cutting ever so slow my heart beating
from my head to my toes.
Look now it's done theres blood on the floor, life is such a chore,
why did i have to become hells horror.
Now all i have is scars, there as many as the stars
i tried to die even in my car but all i have now is deep emotional scars.



Fists

i watch as i slit my wrists
The blood flows through my fists.
i get exited as the blood flows
But now it's time for me to go.
i have been so lost yet slow, i am tormented by my illness
But what can i do? i feel like i have been slowly deteriorating to nothing.
Why does everyone want to pick on me just lock me up and throw away my key.
i cant cry anymore my life is such a tormented chore.
Please end my pain, my lies, my tears
For i've lost all, all i can do now is cry and die.
Please shed not a tear for death is something i've never feared
Please think of my life and not my death for this is all i have left i just
want to cut to ease the pain as i watch the blood flow from my
wrists through my fists.



Phoenix

This was my life. i took it with a knife. i cut so deeply , Hopeless..
It seems tragic but it works like magic. My blood pours i cut my wrists the
blood flows through my fists. It pours out Drip, drip, drip
It spills on the floor. i wish to die on this truth i cannot lie.
Even though i want to die don't take it like i lie. It seems like the best
choice this pain & suffering i can no longer take i am going down down like
the snake.
My heart begins to beat slow for my blood has been lost from my soul.
My lips are blue
i have to run form view.
Please just let me be i don't have anything anymore my soul just wants to
soar. Why does life seem like such a chore?

         ~ Jarod




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."