What is a touch?

It is skin touching skin
It is hello
It is reassurance
It is friendly
It is pain
It is fear
It is controlling
It is asking
It is loving
It is giving
It is taking
It is goodbye

It is lightness
A beautiful reminder of how gentle
These hands can be
When thoughts turn to movement.

It is content
When trust is established
And this connection comes back
A steady unwavering support.

It is a painful shock
When it is unwanted
Driven out of selfish action
A brick smashes trust into pieces
Destroying any sense of feeling safe.

This is what is in a touch
So don’t act like it’s all the same.

What is in a touch?
The weight of the world.
Come to rest on your skin
A million voices reflected in the intent
That drives the movement of one body to the next.