Skins

I'm so excited Skins is coming out for a final mini-series, but fairly disappointed only 5 characters will be in it. Anyway, I was checking out their tumblr and found this awesome poem I thought I'd share. No idea who wrote it, someone at Skins, I suppose

Fiber

I'm in love with everything that has been taken away from me
Every whimper, every gasp
The startled jumps, the tearful looks,
Every fiber of my skin this endless mourning has eroded.

You don't understand because I never tell you,
but if I stayed still, maybe you could hear me out?
No matter how good a song you play
I won't dance, I won't comply.

"How much of this is freedom?" I demanded to know,
"How many stars have had to be kept alive
just so we could watch them shine?"

Burned out, I hide
like a cigarette stub
Tangled in grains of salt I wonder, yet again,
won't you kick me across the sand tonight?
To that rock where the waves meet but don't crush,
where a cancer stick like me could be burned alive.

I woke up today past 12, sweating out a cold
after dreaming of my veins up in the sky as if in display
but you didn't even show.
The stars would laugh and point and watch
because they knew even then I would never ever shine.

The light of day was better though,
you were sleeping by my side.
And the deafening sound of my heart beat
wanted to keep me alive
just to whimper, gasp and jump startled at your name
and in a tearful look list every fiver of me
I've ever let you take.