I pull back all of the layers.
the bravado,
the talk,
the words.
Everything.

Stripped back
bare,
- red raw -
pared down,
to what is innate,
what I know to be true.

And you.
Your name-
written in to me, 
over and over.
Written on my body,
naked of pretence,
your letters are etched in to my soul.