I Need To Feel Poem by Zena Blank

I need to feel
break out of this skin
the skin of a stranger
I don't know my own reflection
I used to know it
every crack and crevice
all the bumps and bruises
I knew them like I should
I knew me
what happened
now and then
such a short span
so much damage
it ruined me
threw me out to sea
where I was torn and tossed
so many broken pieces
never to be reassembled in the same manner
they created this foreign skin in which I now reside
I'm suffocating in it
I need to scream
let everything that has manifested its self in me
escape in a moment
I need relief from this
this confusion
I need to feel