Writing by Hannah Burns. Illustration by Lucy Copeland-Tucker.
Morphing, murmuring
New flaps of skin form and fold over each
other
creating new thicknesses to our outer shell
padding, hardening, protecting yet also
hurting –
making the distance greater.
Our soft original self, all naïve and tender like
the velvety underbelly of a small animal becomes
-enclosed –
by the scales which grow with time, with experience and with words.
An evolution necessary yet grotesque
Striking the balance between vulnerability and guarding
Impossible.
Ever-moving, ever-morphing, ever-murmuring,
New flaps of skin form and fold over
each other
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