Sardine

Pathological fibrosis represents anomalous cicatrization, the tissue which proliferates not where the body intends but through iterative trauma.

I have thought often that what exists between us is of such synthetic facsimile : born of neither instinct nor volition; authored instead by the scalpel's tutelage and the instruction of my desires.

Where natural impulses once beat, your heart molded itself impeccably to my specifications that you might, in your sublime naivety, characterize the outcome as love.

( And I, in my precision, abstained from correcting you. )

I'll sniff your used clothes like it's a line of coke

even if beaten and bruised beyond recognition

we would still see you as the most beautiful

even if they turned you into a monster

we would never fear you

if the world collapses atop your weary soul

keep pushing forward

so that you may reach our arms

and feel loved once more