Your scarred hands
Speak of invasion
Of passion sliding
Recklessly into a heart
Blanketed in vestigial thorns
*
How could you love me
Knowing that beneath my carapace
Lie not the intimacy of communion
But a beast ostracizing
In contempt of beauty
*
Sometimes your smile
Threatens to silence
The demons
Bred inside
My flesh
Sometimes your hands
Rearrange me
Cover my naked bones
With the heat
Of your lips
*
If I believe hard enough
Will I cease thinking
Of loss and act?
Will your body overlook
The mistakes
In my composition?
Will you find sanctuary
Where I’ve found only
Starvation?
*
I have never seen
My face without
Revulsion
I could never bare
For you, whose opinion
I honor above all others,
To look at me
With the same eyes
*
If we stay together
Time will unveil me
If I walk away
While I still belong
Then I’ll have these
Perfect memories
To rely upon
But if I leave
I’ll never know
The nature of my soul
Unbound
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