Responses

Souls may touch
When fingers clasp
Or stand distant,
Isolated, beyond grasp. . .

Hearts may melt
When hands caress
Or freeze and harden
Forbidding closeness.

Minds may meet
When people embrace
Or recoil in fear
Afraid of a kindred face -

Intimacy
is terrifying
yet also
a source of grace.

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