bandaged finger tips
I've burned myself on you
                                        -not once,
                                         but twice.

It is a damage I have brought upon myself.
My fickle heart and mind tripping on the wires
I have planted time and time again.

I'm burned to the bone --
                                            too damaged
                                            to know
                                            any better.

And, I tell myself,
you can never burn yourself on me
because I am not enough for you.
No bandaged finger tips
to trip you up.

I've burned myself--
not once,
but twice--

                                  on you.