don’t touch me / touch me

don’t

touch me.

not because

i break,

but because

i forget

where i end.

your hand

doesn’t hurt.

but it

shifts

the lines

between skin

and silence.

i want

to be

held,

but not taken.

i want

the warmth

without the aftersound.

when you

touch,

i disappear

into the outline

of your want.

i reach back

not to stop

but to

delay.

to fold

the moment

before it

becomes

mine.

touch me

but only

as question.

never

as name.

—

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