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.
About this poem
Wounds
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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 |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 629 |
Words | 136 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 4, 3, 1 |
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