Doubt (Revised)

[RiverNotch]

Punctuation and grammar would do this wonders, I think. Also simplification. A thing is already hidden when you have to dig for it; why does the scalpel have to be dull?; sinews is a sharper word than filaments, and I think this poem needs to be sharp; and the last question sounds, er, weird (I suggest dissing it -- it doesn't add anything into this short subject anyway). Cool first image, though, and being a Biology student with a certain love of myth, this poem really speaks to me (I see my sickle-bladed scalpel cutting through a cat's pectorantibranchialis....)

A dull scalpel tears the flesh of myth
Digging to find the hidden relief under the layers of soft humanity
Conviction’s twisted filaments obscure and distort
How to dissect reality from fable without cutting one’s self?

Alternative take:
"My scalpel tears the flesh of myth,
digs to find relief 
under layers of soft flesh,
but conviction's twisted sinews [obscure, distort]"

From the perspective of my comparative vertebrate anatomy class, when you're cutting something open, the sinews beneath don't exactly distort unless you do something wrong, and for the most part they're where they're supposed to be (unless the subject is sick, but I don't see that implication here) -- the sinews are at their places, so it comes off as the fault of an ill-educated student that the sinews seem to "obscure and distort". 

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Furthermore -- I think that last question's idea, as a summary, would be better placed in the title, which currently says nothing.