Butterfly Touches

By: Rachel Franklin

In my mind

you were

colored

the lightest

blue

Like butterfly

wings

Shine rubbing

off on your

fingers

at a touch.

You loved them

Because

they were so

pretty-fragile

And there’s nothing

More beautiful

than effervescence.

I’m fragile too.

Fragile and trying

to get the me without

you back

One touch at a time

And it still feels like

butterflies alighting

on my arms

Tracing scars

On the most tender

of skin, the skin still

Aching from that touch

Because every time

your hands brushed mine

A little bit of me

Escaped to powder

your fingers.