Have fun, curious child,
Pick at your nose till it bleeds and dries.
Keep on, curious one.
Your body's your own to explore and learn.
The boundaries are there to be found and broken.
You have whiskers in the corners of your skin
Behind the marks and hidden in darkness.
You have puddles where the bruises used to be
And soon you'll have more and they will be sore.
Be strong, volatile thing.
Nuzzle the tenderest grooves of your fear.
Don't stop, little force.
your thoughts are your own to admire, engrossed.
The structures are there to be shattered and opened.
You'll have doubts creeping in beneath your pores,
Changing in volume, obscuring your victories.
Keep them at bay with rituals you devise -
Unspeakably yours and steeped in allegory
Carve them out with the wedges of communication
Oh bodily born, Oh carnally embellished .
Emphasise and peak through your vitality
Until you die and are buried by the ones who loved you.
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