For the first time
I felt that pregnant pause
Softly swelling between us
Worlds apart
With complicated days
Of fight-the-fight
Tumbling thoughts
Of how t'get it right
Speed it up
Or slow it down
Make it so
Before I drown
Simply falling
Our physical distance
Seems so rightly wrong
A sense of you
Simple
Silently strong
Beneath the surface
Of my thinking
But the very essence
Of my truest feeling
Just breathe
Some time midweek
I escaped outside
Under widening skies
I closed my eyes
Standing alone
My feelings felt unknown
Feet placed upon the ground
Waiting on that wanted sound
Of fulfilling completeness
It didn't come
Stand still
And close your eyes
No more sad sighs
Don't look back
Our growing closeness
Somehow quickly
Expanding
Small as it is
The distance
Between
Us
Between
The weekend
Like bolstering bookends
Propping up the
Dusty pages
Of the Things we
Have to do
Then Friday night
That beckoning light
Bringing me back
The stuff and things
That give us rise to share
Discuss some with
And some without
Care
Laugh a little
Laugh a lot
Free to run through
Cobbled streets
Streaked with revitalising rain
A burning sense
Of being alive again
And once more
I tumble in
Even though
There's no door
Breathless and damp
I'm caught midstep
Your rested hand upon your chin
You ensnare me as
You look up
Hold me still
Your eyes drawing me in
Didn't matter
That there were no words
Thoughts like ours
Cannot be heard
We speak our own
Physical touch
Across the wood
Conveys so much
My
Yours
Our
Eyes
Occasional glance
Would have held us there
If there'd been the chance
Then you mouthed
Thank you for coming
(Then five times more
Signalled t'was time to go)
Rain
Streets
Cars
Sounds
Blur
Luscious liquids
Swirling
Swaying
Until
Darkness breathed us in
Warming wraps and familiar folds
Of us
Sunrise
Shapes
Warmth of skin
Kissing curves
Growing heat
Standstill-time
Close my eyes
Just breathe you in
And with each passing day
One more insecurity melts away
And here we are
Time to share
We're just us
You and me
Two halves
Of one
Entirely
Effortlessly
I am here
You have gone
A subtle shift
Another layer
Deeper still
Safe
To Share
Safe
To be
Safe
That is you and me
A spoken trust
We've let us in
Deeper still
No longer feeling strangely displaced
A silvery thread that cannot be traced
It has that tug and has this pull
And brings with it a sense of full
Another day
A vibrant dream
A living life
Another chance
To doormat dance
And whatever it is
That I feel right now
That makes me write
And share somehow
This thing
This sense
This feeling intense
Courses through my heart and mind
Running wild and fearlessly free
It touches me
Fills me
And
Like the smell of drying rain
I want to experience it
Again and again
This is no ordinary love
