and now you'll never be hurt again

did you notice
the way my skin bunched like you were the cold
under your touch too hard
my flesh an anchor to solitude
how my eyes ached
my lips still quiver when i see you
you say my body wants you
but all of it wants to be alone

for the moment
i will start singing
in the shower
again

your shallow gaze
feasts on my soul
like flies in the murky
summer nights
that you held my hand
as we floated out
into the sea

falling like raindrops
the curved cowries
like a slanted lunar phase
three smile up at me as they land
but the last is buried down as the dead

he loves me not