Strangeness and strangers

How many people do you know?
How many people do you love?
How many people make you quiver
in your skin and how many could you trace
from memory with light fingertips in the air?
How many people you wish you could have kissed?
How many people have left scars on you?
How many people do you crave to have
present in your dreams,in your bed,under your
mouth?
How many people have you saved?
How many people have fallen because
of your ravenous eyes and damned lips?
How many people could you turn into a poem
or a novel or a book with no pages whatsoever?
How many people do you think understand
and enjoy your strangeness?
How many people could you fit in your
heart?
How many people did you forgive or cast out?
How many people are on this earth?
How many people would you raise
from the dark?
How many people?How many people,indeed...