Scarless skin is soft.
It waits, so pure and perfect,
To soon feel those claws,
To feel those flesh-hungry teeth.
Time will harden that fresh skin.
Claws will chip, shatter,
Along with the biting teeth.
Broken by stone skin.
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Are you going to publish these in a collection ?
Most rocks only develop that level of strength under inescapable pressures and correlative high temperatures for VERY long periods of time. (But THAT won’t fit into a single syllable…) (Still with those 5s & 7s, <3.) I like the idea that something so soft and vulnerable goes beyond resilience to fighting back. Even passively.