reasons to remain unattached (8/?)

I hurt myself on purpose,

I bleed, you bleed,

and my scars become your scars, too.

reasons to remain unattached (7/?)

There are gardens growing in your voice, flowers spill out every single time you open your mouth to speak or breathe,
but my voice is lost or maybe locked somewhere deep inside my chest. My tongue will always be tied, my lips will always be sealed.

reasons to remain unattached (6/?)

You look at me like I am made of gold and moonlight, but I know that I am composed of nightmares and nothing more.

reasons to remain unattached (5/?)

You are starlight in human skin,
but there are also flames inside your veins
and I have been burned too many times before.

reasons to remain unattached (4/?)

I’ve spent years building up a thick skin so I won’t be ripped to shreds by everyone I touch, but you tear off layers with your lips, you cut me open with your fingertips.

reasons to remain unattached (3/?)

Even your name tastes like sugar on my tongue, but I am not used to anything that does not hurt; familiar are the things that sting and bite.

reasons to remain unattached (2/?)

I am a vault of secrets, and you are the healing light

that will flush them all out. I have known since

I was very young that most things should be kept

up inside my head where they belong.

reasons to remain unattached (1/?)

Please don't leave me alone

Please leave me alone

Please just touch me I need to be touched

Please don't touch me I don't want to be touched right now