kayciance

the falling water left bruises on my skin along my legs and my back and everywhere else you touched me. so I scrubbed myself with soap hoping that if I tried hard enough I’d wash away every time you had called me darling. I let the steam rolling off of cold tiles cloud my brain until I couldn’t feel so that when I told you I couldn’t handle it I was numb to all the tears. and I discovered my skin was too fragile for the roughness of a towel because you had softened it with years of compliments. I guess all it took was one grand gesture because we didn’t even know each other but I fell into an abyss and I started