They say that to truly
understand you need to
get inside someone’s skin,
but I say that this
is an impossible mission,
for each skin, of all colours
and shades, smooth and
wrinkled, hidden from
the world and open,
is unique, distinct,
not possible to know,
for inside it contains
all this humanity
that I can perceive only
as surface,
as label,
from this curious mind
and body that
is also distinct.

This person, unique, is
a mystery I seek,
not to control or
diminish but to know
as impossibility.

I will see your skin.
I will hear your voice.
I will note your eyes.
I will think about your words.

But I will never find you,
for this is a mission
impossible, but one that I will
embrace with joy to the day
that my senses stop
and I leave this skin.

 

30/11/2023