I could trace the outline of your soul

Well, I could try but it moves

Like Mercury

Like when I broke a thermometer as a girl

And the mercury was so slippery

And my mom told me stay away because

Mercury is poison.

But I wanted to play with it!

Slippery

Poisonous

Fascinating

It was all deftly thrown out.

Pushed off the table.

I was always worried about glass thermometers after that.  About putting them in my mouth.

What if my teeth clamped down and the poison spilled into me?

What if it stayed inside me and made me slowly die?

Mercury is a lot like abuse, isn’t it?

Slippery

Poisonous

Lethal