SKIN

I want out

of my skin

and to crawl

deep into yours

--warm and close,

safe.
Cowering from

the cold alone,

escaping

this bruised

and broken down

body

by curling up

into a new one.

Feeding off

the strength and beauty

that I only see

within you,

I only taste

from you.

I want to

curl up

within you,

enveloped in this

new skin,

this shared skin.

I want out

of me,

and into you.

07/24/04