Human Touch

I really didn’t intend

to wound her yet again.

I have not thus far

Figured it out..

You would imagine

after this many years,

I would recognize

what not to do.

But I don’t

I just continue

getting caught

in my own

sticky web.

That I have woven

tighter and tighter

over the years.

I just keep hurting

the same poor little girl

time and time again,

who is just searching for love.

She hungers for

the human touch

as water does to flowers.