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I can't

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ours touches on
a desperately
transcendent love -
minds grasping at,
hands grasping at,
an other who was
just there, I swear,

in my mind. like a
memory who won't
shake loose,
you are too woven in -
your fibers spread
cross thoughts, and
through thoughts, and
on thoughts, and
in thoughts, and you
are too tied to my
nervous, nervous system.

we rasp against each
other so often. our
assumptions lie as
flint and steel - forgotten
in wait on the ground -
a small misstep and,
fire! or blood, depending
on where the foot was.

we are so used to being
leg, hand, arm, heart,
to each other, we forget -
we are two, separate.
we are not telepaths.
despite our shared
nervous, nervous systems.
we are not perfectly
compatible, despite
symbiosis. we are
limited, finite humans.

so when the you who is
my hand cannot do what
I who am your hand would,
dissonance comes, and
doubt, but still your
thoughts are woven and
tangled and tangling tied.

can you walk away if
your leg cannot bend, hand
cannot grasp, arm
cannot lift, heart.
cannot. beat. for the
pull on the threads
in your thoughts?
Can you?

For number 73 of the 100 themes meme. "I can't"

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I do not know who did the painting I'm using here, it was in my files from a long time ago. If you know whose it is, or if it is yours, please let me know so I can properly credit.
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RainySkyz's avatar
Oh wow that hit me in head and heart. :( And because you wrote it so supurbly, I was captured and enraptured over and over to the end.