4am in a room lit w/ scented candles

Playing
in the background, was
a television w/
signal interference, the
image was partly broken into
a chunky discolored pattern
shifting on the screen
in an awkward
dance

every other 5 seconds
an actual word
or tune
may have pulled thru,
but acting more
as tease than as release

if anything

its static pinched
at my burning ears & stung
the brow of an aching
face

my flesh wore
a coat of lacerations,
keeping wrapped w/in
the twinge
of  a feeling
akin to
internal bleeding