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You

Dusti Shay

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Your scent

Your bony shoulder

The dip in your spine as fingers trace

Every inch of you locked in my memory

But not in my mind

In my body

In my fingers, my cheek, my thighs

I reach for you

Feeling only the phantom of your flesh

Desperate longing

I am not parted from you

Only from the experience of you in this earthly realm of hedonistic pleasures

Intoxicated by the sensation of you.

How I long to be drunk on your nectar once again.

One day my soul will be free from this body that separates you and me

And I’ll lose myself in you once again.

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Dusti Shay

Widow, scientist, mother to many, recovering codependent, and blossoming woman. A survivor. My goal in life is to pass on a greater legacy to those after me.