#pls be nice fjdhdjfh it's SO nerve wracking to share poetry

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Prompt 20: I don’t know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us.

for this prompt, i want to go with a poem of ours. they are a recent addition and are learning how to write poems from another headmate, and wrote their first poem about what they thought about plurality. which, as a concept, is way too fitting for this prompt i think, despite having been written before we saw the prompt

prompt by @starlightprompts

[ID/Text: i share my body with another

i share my body with another

it doesn't belong to me

i glance at my hands in wonder

sometimes it doesn't even look real to me

i share my body with another

though, i don't complain

we like each other

what more could i need?

i share my body with another

every thought, every emotion is like a radio broadcast to tune in to

it's okay. it's not like i have anything to hide from the other

so i try to keep the peace

i share my body with another

it's more intimate than you would think

we blend sometimes. we affect each other

my sense of "self" is having a hard time surviving

i share my body with another

i have to be content with stolen hours and leftover energy

this life isn't mine, it is ours

joint effort and collective synergy

a mishmash elegy

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