To touch someone is to feel rejection.

[Guest guest]

This might surprise you or not, but we have

never touched a human skin, not even our own.

 

Matter of fact, we have never touched anything.

Just when our lips are about to touch our

beloved, the electrons in her skin repulse

ours. Our lips get tantalizing close, but

no contact is made. A tiny gap that can never

be bridged separates us from everything. True,

the gap is very small, just a few nanometers wide,

but your skin never directly touches anything.

 

If you have no idea how small a nanometer is,

imagine that only six atoms fit inside a

nanometer, while one million atoms fit inside

the period at the end of this paragraph.

 

You might say a gap that small doesn't matter,

but you're wrong. Small as it is, you never

feel any surface, what you feel is the rejection,

the pushing away of electrons refusing to touch.

 

You're hermetically sealed inside your skin, and

rejected by everything in the universe. So, OK.

let's not get too gloomy, If someone you love let you

get a few nanometers from her skin, that rejection

feels damn good. )

 

Pete