osmosis tender_square this heart of mine designed for semi-permeability, letting you and you alone. and yet you’ve eroded every shoddily constructed defense i hammered in earnest to protect my secret wishes. no longer at a remove. my tenderness is not the result of bruising but of revelation. my skin flushes with your heat; muscles sparked by the propulsive motion of our longing. and a deeper love, a worldly love, inundates this sailboat rocking on my ribs, catching the crest of each expectant, expansive breath. 211226 what's it to you? who go blather from