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lil  ·  3965 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Today's Writing Prompt: Don't Touch Me

Don’t Touch Me or How Things Work

  I approach.
  You recoil.
  I approach.  You sleep.
  I approach.  You recoil.
  I give up.
  You surface.
  I recoil.
  You sleep.

  I knew this.
  You too.
  I knew going in.

  And went in.

  Even
  early on
  you told me I was 
  “off the scale”
  in my 
  preference for
  cuddling 
  over, say,
  movies.

  That said
  you’re
  OK
  with
  an
  open
  relationship

  Both then
  and now . . .
  20 years on.