use

I can let people have used me
And more importantly, do(es) I think any love is a truer self?
Their fears and fucked up roles become the vibrations of me too

He wants intimacy,
what sweet sacred line between platonic affection and being held?

I want his split self in the bushes
/ nature
/ / / edge
making me his asset

How will you receive hir love and attention,
with that desire to control and so on?

I’m wrestling with the water
I don’t want to be completely available
I want to forget?
Does it matter?

He fuels confusion,
why do I feel like a trash tin?

I want to support his deepest desires
/ confused
/ / / worried
when he gets too neat

Why do I feel so humiliated,
because relationships (a) whither (b) blow up?

And so simple
/ cling
/ / suck
was it special

He told me he projected my true self onto me
More importantly, do(es) he feel controlled by affection, aspiration, desire in his legs?
I hold their better weaknesses instead of the hidden sides they cannot face

my first reader

your face is a familiar danger
twin
mirror of what I would not see
you frighten me (i frighten you)

you stoke a fire
in my gut
your hands
thaw my heart
your arms hold
my lifeless body

near you I feel alive for the first time
since I was killed as a child

with you I can walk into the darkness
slice through it with /
/ words, concepts, empathy, generosity
poetry as flashlight

I fumble around blindly next to you
(afraid to leave your side)

I see only my.your eyes
color
burn
energy

I feel your.my every movement
dream
touch
sound

will

I want to be in the autoerotic
I will not touch you in order to set off some cascade of fireworks and minefields
I will touch you slowly, gently, with love
I want to know my own skin
I will not isolate myself into fantasies
I will find pleasures I haven’t been able to access
Never again will I endure your touch
Never again will I hope that you can know what I need
Never again will I cross your lines and leave you for dead
And one day we will touch
I will know your skin with a tenderness reserved for my own
I will listen to what brings your pleasure
I will ask for what I need
Our lines will meet with trust and honesty
And the friction between us will give off sparks of life not death
We will no longer grope around half awake in the darkness
We will live and laugh in the light