A Million Others

Lost between sheets
You held my hand
You touched my skin and said
You didn’t feel a thing
Lost in desire
You looked at me
You traced my ribs and said
My body was like a million others
I said yes
I find it hard
To feel it as a part of me
To live inside it and just be
When I see it on all the walls
In all of the streets
Dressed up and stripped down
To not look like me
Still, I gave you my body
With all its tricks
Its crevices
And breakages
And all I could commit
I gave you my body
In exchange for yours
So I could feel free
And you said you felt sick