I don’t want your blood

Dripping over my head

Not literally or symbolically

Your thoughts and fears,

Your inhibitions and philosophies

Would infiltrate my defenses

So keep it to yourself

I don’t want your tears

Dripping over my head

Not one salty drop

Polluting my ducts, my eyes,

My heart my very being.

That sadness is contagion,

An invisible hammer to crush

My defenses

So keep them to yourself.

I don’t want your beliefs

Dripping over my head

Uninvited misconceptions

Invading my perceptions

That I’ve spent years

Rehoming as I take in

Information to be analyzed.

So keep them to yourself.

Drip-dripping all over me

No blood, no tears, no beliefs.

Uninvited, unwanted

Invaders of my very self.

No gushes, no rivulets, no streams

Dripping over me.

So keep them to yourself.