Look within her wretched hands
Tears of blood, pooled from sands₁
Metallic salt₂ to pacify3
Drips down her arm to satisfy₃

Locked behind a killing wall4
Silent mind₅, she in thrall₆
Mercury kiss from demon qualm₇
Racing heart and shaking palm

Outside her twisted, shattered soul
Art of anger, burnt like coal₈
Carnal₉ expression, heroin knife₁₀
Her wretched hands₁₁ give₁₂ bloodstained life₁₃

_{1 sands - sands of time
2 metallic salt - blood mixed with tears
3 to pacify, to satisfy - to calm the demons or horrible emotions within
4 killing wall - internal block against opening up and sharing feelings
5 silent mind - unexpressed thoughts, feelings, and emotions
6 in thrall - held captive in submission to unexpression
7 mercury kiss from demon qualm - deadly, beautiful, uncontrollable touches of awful feelings
8 art of anger, burnt like coal - scars from self-inflicted burns
9 carnal - physical
10 heroin knife - needing to cut like needing a knife, without feeling like coming off of heroin
11 wretched hands - self-injury
12 give - maintain
13 bloodstained life - life but filled with self-injury needed or thought needed for survival}