Save Me With Your Affection
Anastasia Simms
Hold me until I forget
that I’m now old enough
to understand the movies
I watched too young.
Stroke my hair until
you’ve wiped away
the last traces of the world
from my mind.
Kiss my forehead
until your lips
have drawn from me
all that I feel is evidence
that I will never be enough.
Place my head in your lap
until I feel like I can reclaim my sexuality,
without fear.
Fill my nose with your scent
until I can breathe easy
without worries for the future
catching in my throat.
Sing to me until
the rumbling in your chest
has shaken loose the last
of the bad memories.
And as they fall away,
fall asleep with me.
Give me one night of peace,
for it is in your arms
that the pieces of me seem to sit, peacefully.
Make me whole for one night’s sleep.
I will wipe my own tears again in the morning.
Anastasia Simms is a second-year honors student at Kent State University studying English, Psychology, and Creative Writing. She has loved reading and writing her whole life, so much so that as a young girl her mom gave her notebooks as presents to stop her from writing on napkins, the mail, or whatever other scraps of paper she could find. Anastasia hopes that her writing will positively impact others just as the written word has always done for her.
