Broken

I feel terminally soft

pink skin golden flesh peach fuzz soft

my heart ripe like high summer fruit

my soul cool and rippled as a spring thaw creek

first clinging tendril of creeping vines

sweet pea paper petals

cat noses pink paw pads concealing claws

soft down pillow

sinking down to the belly of me

flesh yielding

subtle bone protruding

desperate ache of tenderness

don't push to hard

thumb bruise

crushed

broken

chewed up

spit out

pulp

where do I put my heart

how do I preserve its pulsating flesh

dripping juicy softness

in your world of hard edges

fast words

crushing bleeding blows?

slicing flesh cleaving flaming hot anger

desperate disparate devastating

here I am ripe and ready for love

there you are looking to fight

how can I lay myself down in front of you

allow you to devour me in one bite

chewing swallowing without tasting

how can I?

you are hard like smooth glass

cold like metal

sharp like knives