#poetsofumblr

[manveenkohli]

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touch

I wish I could touch you, I wish the space between us wasn’t there. I wish I knew you as a human, could discover you like a child. play on your beaches, hide in your ribcage. I wish I could love you without limits.

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body of sorrow

your hands on my chest, sleeping, dreaming of when I could be touched without warning. a body of sorrow, weeping inside of me, barely touching my borders. my skin separates you from it, protecting us both from one another. I want to tear it off and show you every vein, every subcutaneous scar, but your hands would wake and go away, so I keep still and hold a universe inside.