MARLENA

Locked within ourselves, in a fullness and an emptiness that feel like nothing but an icy cold, we impose discipline and rules to shield ourselves from a world that has little to give but everything to take.

On an Earth where sex is free and love comes at too high a price, we end up barren inside before our skin even has time to show it.

The only ones that still care for the soul are the eyes, which sometimes betray us—because a flame still burns, only hidden, far from the home we carry in our chest.