Discern my heart as you do my curves
the lines stretched across my hips.
Don't let your lips tell me lies,
just gentle strokes along my thighs.
make me safe, and I'll keep you enamoured
Illuminate my abyss and ignite my desires.

His gaze told me
he saw me.
and it told me I had never been seen before

Was it really heart break?
Or was it just deeply rooted trauma that he had plucked from within me and laid out to whither?

I must be losing my mind
I thought I left you behind

I round on geriatric patients in the psych ward every morning.
Today my patient said something that rattled me to my core. She said,
"Don't ever pluck your eyebrows they're so thick and beautiful,
don't ever change yourself because they'll all tell you to,
I did it...." she trailed off. For a moment, I wondered if she was lucid.
I asked her what she meant, but she began rambling unintelligible words. I couldn't get much else out of her except what little wisdom her old tattered brain could muster up.