Fresh skin



Like a new pair of shoes
I ware you in.
Fresh skin. Fresh newborn skin.
Skin from within my wound.
Wounds from life waring me in.

I stretch you and how you draw me in.
To touch your softness.
To scratch you away again.
Fresh skin so relieving.
Fresh skin. Fresh, fresh skin.

So pink like a fresh ripe apple
I wonder why you were healed
When I tore off your coat of hard clotting blood.
Fresh skin. Fresh and alive organ that holds me within.

I would lick you like my newborn child
imagining I was a lioness wild and free and feral. Alone but for us.
Fresh skin. Fresh in our relationship.

Fresh skin. Fresh youthful skin.

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Written on March 01, 2022

Submitted by heathert.34240 on March 01, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAAXA ABXXA XXXA XBX A
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 629
Words 136
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 4, 3, 1

Heather Lydia Thornhill

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