Lead n. 1 : a heavy soft malleable ductile plastic but inelastic bluish white metallic element found mostly in combination and used esp. in pipes, cable sheaths, batteries, solder, and shields against radioactivity
Lead
this is something
that i've felt for you
which i'm sure no one else
has
but someone will.
this is something
ill --
something aching.
this is something
real
and sometimes
hard.
i am soft.
i am silk
inside,
the lining of my veins
roof of mouth
fleshy thigh meat
(fat on hips, too)
just underneath the surface
of pink stretch marks.
i am silk.
but you
are a little ball of lead
rolling in the bottom
of my lungs.
heavy
awake
cold
familiar
but uncomfortable.
this is something
that i've felt for you
which i am sure
no one else has
but
someone will.