The poem describes the speaker's tactile experiences with various surfaces and materials, eliciting a range of emotional and physical sensations. Touching surfaces like an orange's scarred skin, pale marble, rough stone, silk, flowing water, grass blades, unbaked dough, chocolate, and fur evoke feelings like tremors, shivers, disdain, calm, nostalgia, ecstasy, increased circulation, and energy. Drinking rum brings waves of alcohol that drown the speaker, while touching a leopard's furry skin brings overwhelming courage. The final lines describe raising a beloved's lifeless skin to the Creator, with a desire to char it to preserve the scent of her grace.

1. SKIN
When i felt the scarred and abraded skin of unripened orange,
it caused silent tremors in multiple pores of my flesh.
when i touched the cold skin of pale chipped marble,
shivers of dormant jubilation made me smile.
when i caressed rough skin of unprocessed grey stone,
feelings of utter disdain crept slowly through cellars of my blood.
when i felt the satiny skin of pure silk garment,
a serene calm descended painstakingly over my persona.
when I touched the skin of crystal flowing mountain water,
nostalgic memories flooded in domains of longing heart.
when I slapped the skin of languid grass blades,
tingling sensations catapulted me to dizzy heights of ecstasy.
when I kneaded thoroughly the skin of unbaked dough,
circulation of red blood increased by leaps and bounds in all regions of body.
when I licked the skin of sickening sweet chocolate candy,
it sent spurts of energy to torn cells of anguished heart.
When I sipped nonchalantly elastically translucent skin of brown rum,
Waves of pungent alcohol drowned me in webs of disaster sedation.
when I cuddled the furry skin of the striped leopard,
I experienced overwhelming courage acting as my companion.
When I raised the lifeless skin of my beloved to the Creator,
I felt like charring it first, to have an everlasting scent of her divine grace