Thursday, May 22, 2025

Given

It started with trust.
a quiet wanting, then a breath
on skin I’d forgotten was mine.

A hand,
a mouth,
the slow undoing
of what I’d locked away.

Not taken this time —
given.
Freely.
Fully.

 

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