cw: implied sex, self-destruction
to be vulnerable
to be open
to be touched.
–a baby swallow
–a dissection,
a knife.
Liking it’s beside the point
if you do it right, and
besides, there’s risk in being
alive, in being mine, in being
in between insane and fine.
if only I could be
to those I knew the names of
to faces that weren’t strangers
once your opinion matters
there’s a weight to the whole matter–
in its mass and marrow
there’s irony deep-writ
I can’t trust in travelers and passers-by unknown
I can only bare my soul
to others far from home.
Elliott Dunstan 