MY BARE HOLLOW SKIN
We were standing on the edge of a river.
You and me. All alone.
It was a fresh springtime afternoon....there was this gentle wind blowing, the orange sun was setting...and this weird kinda tranquillity... it was all around us. Covering us. Sheltering us.
The river was green. A shallow kind of green...you didn't like it at first. You didn't tell me but I knew.
You preferred it blue- because of the sky, but it wasn't.
Blue was your favourite color.
We stood there for a long time. Without talking.
I really wanted to ask- "Why are we here?"
But I stopped myself having no idea why.
Suddenly you turned around, looked into my eyes and touched my skin.
Skin. My bare hollow skin.
You touched your lips to all over it.
In every inch. In every curve. In every corner.
I wanted to do the same. I was craving to feel the same.
But I couldn't.
Because of what you did. You drowned me. You drowned me in the river. That shallow green colored river.
I remember I was grasping for air....I was trying to scream, trying to free myself but unable to.
I screamed your name. Once. Twice. Thrice. At one point I lost count.
I don't know for how many times I kept screaming your name.
It was nothing but some loud muffled words.
So maybe you didn’t hear me at all.
But... you could see, right? I knew you could see me, even if you couldn’t hear me well! You have eyes, no?
So then I wanted you to see me.
"I am suffering, I need to breathe! Look at me. LOOK AT ME PLEASE!" - I screamed my heart out. I screamed with my eyes! Again. And again. And again.
And again.
You saw me. Finally. Like REALLY saw me. And you strangled me even more...harder than before...with all your strength...like nobody has ever done to anyone on this planet!
I was feeling numb...and weak....and helpless.
And you were watching me....you were there the whole time....
You looked me into the eyes....again....with so much love and sadness and grief....and then finally choked me to death.
And as I died....all soaked in cold water, no breathing- my body was ice-frozen....but I could still sense you...you were so desperate!
For one last time you touched my skin, my bare hollow skin....
Every inch, every curve, every corner.... and then you let me go.
Deep down in that shallow green river.













