'Show me.'

You whisper breathlessly

Warmth dancing across the palms of my hand

My heart races at the thought

Of exposing myself to you

But I swallow the fear

And drag my sleeves up along my arm

Exposing all the scars

That bleed and ooze of stories long forgotten

It's faint now

But you drag your fingers across everyone

And make them come alive again

And for a moment

I forget that they've ever existed

As you draw the stories from beneath my skin