Touch

Comes in many fleeting forms - 
    	fingertips 
brushed bare shoulders
    	feet glancing under a table
bare skin on the small of a back
The gluttons pass it like butter,      
     slowly and frequently 
     oiling their kid gloves. 
For the starved it is a maddening hunger
     a burning need that is
     never sated long enough..
But for the fearful it is a conflicting   pain
    		oh! 
But to be enfolded by another
only at the spark of a caress 
to run
forever heartbroken.
   




 

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