Patchwork [Poetry]

touch

my skin burns

everywhere you touched me

i taste ashes in my mouth

which soap do you use

to rub off someone's memory

off your skin?

nausea fills my lungs

at the thought of bearing it again

how will i know love

without knowing touch?

is there another way to love?

-you only loved me when you touched me

(i could have loved you across oceans)