Like a Beach Towel (Poem)

Lay me down in the sand
Cover my body with yours
Once you get up I feel relief
I'm hurting
But still alive
I lay there as you go to wet your body
Then you return
Recovering my body with yours
This time making me wet
But not the wet I wish to feel
Making me more uncomfortable than the first time
Repeating the process until I am almost one with the sand
AS the sky darkens you pick me up
Shank me out and throw me in a bag
Only to wash me and reuse me all over again

Don't treat me like your Beach Towel.

Written on 5.19.09