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All the ones who touched me 

but refused to have me.

Who asked me to sleep in their beds

but not talk to them

when their friends were around. 

 

I mourn them.

Not for the loss of them,

 

But for being introduced to my body 

as a bouquet of petals

And leaving it as a pile of stems—

clipped, undesirable,

unwanted.