The Blood & The Bones

it’s the way you reach for me each time
as if you’d never done that before
never closed the space between you and anyone else
desperate to touch, to be undivided, to be the closest

that shows me what it’s like to feel
untarnished, unparalleled
vibrant

an open palm
where only clenched fists have been
sometimes, it makes this chapter more bearable
than all the others
even if it’s just
for those fleeting moments

the blood
& the bones