Reaching Out
When edges are blurred, light softens, distorting memories, lying, creating new ones that never happened, never will
Reaching out, tentatively, a spider leaving her dark, cosy hole two feet first, sensing danger, never quite knowing, willing to take a risk, her desire, her thirst, her compulsion
Loneliness and hunger for more than this, even the strong will feel these humiliating, treacherous hurts, knife wounds, deep, reaching out to release, hot blade, fierce flesh, feeling the cold rush in