"broken darkness"

She sat
alone
in the dark.
Pain coursing through
every
vein.
She wanted to let
all that pain
out.
And she did.
She sat
alone
and in the dark
she broke
skin
let the pain
flow.
Slowly,
so
slowly,
she etched the letters
P
A
I
N
into her flesh,
and felt it flow away.
She was
alone.