This

What are we? Where is this, going? Where are we? I don’t know. I don’t know if we are there yet. I don’t know where there is. I don’t know if even there is a there. I am enjoying the journey. I know This moment is real, This kiss, This shared space, This shared narrative …

Open me up, Metal on skin, Scratch by scratch, Fire on skin. Reveal me for who I am, For what I am. Sweet agony, Flows out blood, Purified, Pleasures painful. I’m paying for my sins. Am I this, this new person, With markings voluntary? Marking me as what, Special? Different? Am I still the same, …