Pushed away: Kelp

It pursues physical closeness at a high rate while keeping the actual person out of reach, so contact is frequent, exposure never happens, and the sheer volume disguises the avoidance underneath it. It grew up in a household where sex was currency and a young person was treated as available material, which taught it that bodies are the transaction and the self stays out of the room. What it asks for is one encounter in which something true gets said out loud, before or afterwards.

I can do the whole night with someone and still not let them meet me.

It echoes Blodeuwedd, assembled out of flowers to be a wife for somebody else's convenience and never consulted about any of it, who went looking for something of her own and was turned into a bird for it. The form implies a task: to be asked, once, rather than arranged for.