Palpating the Fragile Calm

unencumbered & transfixed    
i abide in the vast chasm          
of sequential moments          
where i have forgotten          
just how cold i've become          
         
until the incidental warmth          
of your unintentional touch          
seems like a glancing blow          
to my carefully constructed ego          
         
shocking me,          
once again        
into arrhythmic      
(e)motion