Skin

Could you exist within my skin,
Where once there lived a beating heart?
You’d scarce believe what’s held within

With muted voice, impassive grin
You masked your cruelty from the start
Could you exist within my skin?

If you could hear the thunderous din
Of words of hate, hurled like a dart
You’d scarce believe what’s held within

The circuitries that underpin
My life are blown, fallen apart
Could you exist within my skin?

If you could be where I have been,
Transported there by blackest art,
You’d scarce believe what’s held within

An existential conjoined twin
That can’t reboot, resume, restart
Could you exist within my skin?
You’d scarce believe what’s held within