Fletch Fletcher

Confession #8

I chant Fuck Depression!
And I almost think I could.

It’s just the two of us alone in this bed
sharing skin beneath a dirty, black sheet.

Its hands touch me in all my most sensitive places,
wrapping me in itself like it needs me,

and I beg it love me
even as it whispers, hot and breathy, in my ear:

I won’t.
No one ever will.

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Fletch Fletcher is a science teacher, a poet, a brother, a friend, and an observer of how all people connect to everything around them. He is the author of Existing Science (Assure Press, 2021) and the forthcoming Confessional (Finishing Line Press, 2023).