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Layers

Have you ever felt the layers beneath your skin?

Layers that hide behind this thick

Bruised, scarred but touched, loved exterior

Ones that have developed over the years

Through the smiles and pain

Mostly, the pain.

Layers that shield you from the atrocities of mankind,

Layers that not hide but protect

your raw core

your pure existence

You.

Layers that sometimes reveal themselves

To you

Or the world

By change, chance or choice

Your vulnerable flesh

That whispers to you

And sometimes screams

To be someone else

In your head,

In your heart.

Have you ever felt the layers beneath your skin

Trying to find an escape

To unravel you bare

To strip you of your pretences

To strip you of your judgements

Your assumptions,

To strip you of you.

I wonder sometimes what hides beneath these layers

I wonder what you and I and we and they would be

Without our layers

Without boundaries.

Would we clench our fists in frustration

Or gulp down hurtful cries

Or in moments of love

Voice our heartfelt desires?

I wonder sometimes what hides beneath these layers

Ones that you and I and we and they so easily hide

I wonder what it would feel like-

The layers beneath your skin and mine.


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