Love Poem: Touch Me
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Written by: Maria Mitea

Touch Me

and leave,
leave as if i don't exist and never existed,

i know, you are strong enough, and you are made for this kind of touch,
i promise not to ask you anything, nagging; i won't cry, won't scream, 
i won't run after you, either
or try to pull your sleeve, make you look back,

Touch me, like then
when you love someone secretly for years and years, and you dream and dream,
you dream and  pray in secret, to die with her, and one day you wake up, stunned in front of her, you wake up and
wait for the wind to play with leaves in her hair and you just pick them, gently
and touch her chin, lips and after,
after, you  leave, 
hunchbacked
you leave
without saying a word, stiff as stones
without looking back

touch me like you have no idea i'm here on earth
and i do my own things and
i have no idea that you are here on earth doing your own things,
but
we know what it's like not to be touched, not to be hugged
while the stars are closer than the eyes,
we know how courage can save the white bird and the blackbird in a blink of an eye, 

touch me in your eyes
-in your eyes, as if you are making love to me,
like you're making love to me and we hold each other so tight, so tight we hold each other like we hate each other, so tight
we hate
we hate each other to death