Outside

Outside Approval

Shell of existence validated

No matter how many bodies and souls

Come and Go

Remind the inner girl

Crying out for a voice

Recognize Accept and Devote

She cries bloody tears

Rips at her heart with overgrown nails

Screaming piercing sounds

Putting down the blade

In leu of warm skin

Once is no end

For a turtle coming

Out of her shell

Once in a lifetime

Is now surely dead