Sometimes I remember reading about our need for positive touches, and while I’m generally not big on getting touched at all, I do have moments when I just wish someone would hold me tight for a while, without needing to say anything.

I realize I go days and weeks without any touches touches at all, save for the random strangers who bump into me on the tram. I see people I like once a week at best, and I don’t have a hugging sort of relationship with any of them.

clairesalcedo:

You are not hollow.

There is a vast landscape
opened up in your heart,
with continents so wide
that it might feel 
(at times)
utterly empty,

but is, in truth,
howling with life and a love
that will send echoes and tremors
over your geography, your geology,
shaking the stalled tectonics
of your stationary heart,
splitting the coldness of the ground, 
and waking you from numb sleep.

Lonely soul, yes, you are,
but remember this—
hollow creatures
don’t feel the earth shake.