Inside my tube, I am safe

I am unfamiliar with human touch. I am unfamiliar with the pain and thrill of skin against my own. I am unbeknownst to feel of sunlight and fallen raindrops. They are mere tellings through words the scientists tell me occasionally.

The words teetering at the edge of my lips are never spoken nor heard.

I am a simple corpse breathing artificial air and watching a mundane around me, limbs restrained by clamps of cool metal.

_Maybe. _

_Someday. _

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