Jagged

by Alex

Ripping me apart
as it pulls me together
Slithering arms
embrace me
as I try to push them off
They wrap me
in a hug
but they want me dead
Their embrace gets tighter
day
by
day
Slowly cutting into me
Hugs are warm, happy, loving
But it's only cold arms that embrace me,
and cut me,
sharp and jagged as ice
Darkness and perfection,
in an eternal dance
that I'm pulled into
but will never belong in
They pull me
tighter and tighter
as they rip me to shreds