Electrical Tape

At first, it’s just one piece

She sticks across her bleeding heart.

A fine and bendy bandage—

Temporary, at the start.

The picture of her arm

But then a beetle cast becomes.

She tries to mask the current

Stronger, stronger as it hums.

’Tween her calm and hard reality

Soon the casing’s all that stands.

She’s shifting foot to foot as

Friction’s sparking from her hands.

Plastic darling, tape wrapped thrice,

She cannot open up to say

Beneath it she’s a livewire,

Into darkness fades away.