Getting Hugged

I worry a lot about what I am. I worry about the shape I am, the space I take up, and the way I do it.

I worry a lot about getting hugged. When it happens to me, what does the other person feel? How much of me can they gauge? How much more than I can?

I worry about changing my clothes when nobody's looking. What do I look like in those moments?

 

After long nights of sitting at my desk staring at paper, while I fall asleep, I try to dream about getting hugged: about tens and then dozens and then hundreds of people tossing their arms around me, 

Feeling me, 

Knowing what my body is 

And the shape that it makes. 

 

wph

VT

16 years old

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