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Warm bodies lie with cold hearts Mouths lie with lips Favored paramour Flavored movements Works of art Chest to chest Hips to hips Living metaphor Lessons fluent, Eloquent even Communicating feelings Feeling freedom from conditioned fantasies for the first time Consistency is key Unlock internally Soul, heart, mind Remember to surrender Remember time is not linear No rush to healing Feeling without touch Revealing intimacies  Without boundaries Friendship and Love Being without Form  Connection without phones Tapped in, turned on, charged, calling, Home Please Do not disturb

Everything around me holds a shadow of us I can’t look at a storefront Without seeing us holding hands Can’t listen to a band Without envisioning Me sitting in your car with my legs across your lap It’s more bittersweet than sad How the more distance grown between us Makes these moments more precious  And I’m holding onto them like Polaroids  Praying they never fade into little more Than washed out sepia imprints of what was