Self-Portrait As Everyone I've Ever Dated

Based on the following prompt: Early Bird Prompt

NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 1

Each one creates a shape along the outline of my body,

Building a landscape as we move.

I have become a continent, full of waves and partially cloudy skies;

Able to build small boats for curving rivers

And take careful steps through rocky terrain;

I can handle the storms, now, and the vast, tedious fields.

Yet even after all these years and all these skills,

I’m still writing myself as insecure attachment

to everyone else. I’m still obsessed with

Alternating between island and wave;

Fearful, without an anchor, trying to

Read a map through blurred vision.