The Love I Hold For My CTS Is A Basic Function Of Life

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I want to press my hand into yours

No, yours into mine

And bury my face against you

Anywhere

I want to fall asleep against you

And find you gone when I wake

Making food,

Or one of your other midnight habits

I want

I want

I want

And I don't know if I can have

I haven't seen you in so long

That the warmth of my legs against yours

Seems so foreign it is as a dream

I need you back

Safe in my reach

I need you like a child needs his mothers breast

I need you like my lungs need air to live

I need

I need

I need

And I don't think I'm going to get

I want and I need and I'm reaching and grasping

When all the while I just want you to grab my arm

Pull me up

And say "I'm not done with you yet"

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