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Sarina
Poems
Feb 2014
i still want to touch you
I became so scared of hurting you
that I stopped
wanting to touch you,
and now
I just wait for other things to do it for me. A
sapling has reached puberty
greening its leaves
while an old oak dies, limbs
creating air
around your face
almost like wind but more like breath:
it
is syrupy
stuck to your chest hair. I do not
need anything more than the knowledge of
how my cotton slip
would pull
against you, or how your skin
reacts when it is
about to rain – how the clouds react
for you.
Without me
you can feel how promises begin
to feel like sea foam
and
why
when you wake up
in my bed every morning, it is because
I whispered
an apology too loudly
and little vibrations touched
something
in your ear. I am sorry for that, too –
sorry for the times we
forgot to take our glasses off
before
you were on top of me
sorry that it takes less than a month for a
habit to form
but years to break them
which is why
I still
want
to touch you
before someone else can show you
how walking barefoot
boosts your immunity system.
Written by
Sarina
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