Love Poem: Know Me
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Written by: Tara Jennings

Know Me

I want be known
 not by a thousand but by one
I to be bone deep recognised in spirit and flesh
I want  you to care enough about the details
   To memorise these shades of shadows
swirling in my soul

          and not run
 petrified of my darkness and repulsed by my inadequacy
I want you to love my imperfection
 
I want to be desired
   as in oxygen has been replaced
   with burning for my taste

I dream of this love
   colored and contoured by novels
but I wonder

if it is not a fantasy lying
is it real?
For now it is the sniper 
   taking down the flesh before me
    with its desperate demands