By briana kassia
Date: 2007 Aug 30
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[[2007.08.30.15.31.20187]]

don't watch

don't watch me
peel back my skin and ache and
bleed and touch carefully
the velvet underlining, the underside of
the scab still wet
that velcro edge that holds me
together until I am peeled
egg, onion,
layers removed, flayed freed
back when I shed my skin
myself
my lovers
and lives past
I will, I want to do it in a dark cave
hidden away walled in sacred
stone and silence

I wish you couldn't see
in the dark