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Surrender - My daughter's poem

My nakedness is a deliberate decision
and I bow happily before you in surrender.    
In giving our self-possession to another,  
we choose an incremental and pleasurable death.  
Dispossessed of ourselves, we place our treasures  
inside of each other.  
Our imperfections becomes complete.    
 
Why do your fingers tremble over my scalp  
as they trace my hair?  
Are they reading my thoughts?  
Or, are you afraid of one so young?  
 
The salty taste of your offering takes me back  
to sandy shores where my mother says I  
was conceived.  
 
Tonight, this quiet dying to myself with you  
swallows easily and I smile at the  
approving hums from your chest.
Written by Nizana (Lauryn)
Published
Author's Note
This poem told me something I'd suspected about my daughter's relationship with the professor she's been texting. I've not interfered since they're two consenting adults now. I think the professor's language crept into this poem in terms like "self-possession" and "dispossessed."
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