Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Bleeding fingers 2015

  

I still feel it sometimes in the dead of night, how each feels against the palms of my hands, something more than a memory, a touch that has seeped under my skin and into my blood so I can never be rid of it, soft yet firm at the tips, firmer when I pinch or lick or suck, they fitting m y lips as well as my hands, a dreamscape, a memory land I still stroll down even when the reality of it is no longer possible, a pleasant stroll down a garden path when I still crave the smell of roses, having long forgotten the sting the thorns also bring, pain and pleasure, locked always into that same embrace, even in memory, although now, it is one of abstinence, of no longer having what was once was, as I prefer bleeding fingers to no pain at all.

 


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