Soft skin

Smiles and teeth and soft skin
Pink beneath eager lips
As they lick and suck and taste
Me.
~insight07

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Drowning

I’m drowning in a sea of thorns
Thorns of my feelings and hurt.
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Even when things seem impossible
And future, an unrevealed dream
I believe, things will be all right.
•
If not now, they eventually will be.
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I am full of your sunlight
Warm and happy.
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So what, if I drown tonight?
In me, it is you and me.
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~insight07

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Day

Blue morning•
I feel the feeble sunlight
On my paper-thin skin
A blanket heavy and warm
Over my body and limbs
Stories of lingering dreams
On my mind, as they
Once again get lost
In my subconscious.

Yellow day•
I run with the hours
Breathe with strangers
Feel the warm sunshine
On my open hair
I see her talk, see her smile
For one tiny moment
I forget she is not mine.

Grey evening•
Too many people look
At my exposed neck;
Eyes on my pale skin.
A mad mad race to reach
The top of the ladder
Do I even want to go there?
Can I even go there?

White night•
Visuals and sensations wage wars
To reach me in my sleep
I feel her in one, lying with me
In the next I see my dead sister, talking to me
In one I see a sun burning, white in this dark sky
In one I see myself sleeping
With flowers, pale and light.

~insight07

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Public intimacy

Pressed against
Warm bodies
Warm breaths;
A familiar strangeness lingers.
Cold air
On my open neck
Eyes on
My closed eyes.
Thighs and hips
Against mine.
Drumming fingertips
On blue glass screens;
Worlds enclosed in shells.
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The road seems to stretch
Into this darkness
And we travel
On and on and on.
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~insight07

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