through the atmosphere

a poem

cut the thread and watch how the ends fray

the seasons are changing whether you untie the knot or dethread the needle

feel how we ignite beneath the flayed partitions of our soul

I tumble gleeful and excited

with you I am unraveling and I don't want this to cease

I can see us, soaring pressed together among the tufts of cirrus clouds

illuminated and glowing beneath the rising sun

your eyes find mine and I don't care that we are falling so quickly

wrap me round in your arms and hold me like I am the rarest commodity to you

and I will do the same

run your fingers through my hair

trace my nerve endings and watch how I burn for you

hot and lingering, you kiss me with chocolate lips

and I'm rolling with you

bodies held in the midnight tangle of cold bedsheets

clothed only in the way we hold each other

I watched in silence as you held my fears

drowning them beneath the waves of how you love me

I feel alive and you show me the answers I have searched for

and still I wonder if I can be any more alive than in this moment

I am breaking through the atmosphere into the expanse of everything unknown

but can I love even more than I do?

I don't want to flounder choking in desperate familiarity

you are my over the counter drug

dopamine and oxygen and still I find myself breathless

caught in the taste of you and my voice is lost in your mouth with the way we make love

I want to show you the softest parts of me

the way my universe is alive when poured into your orbit

dizzy I watch the room fall from focus

the world blurry lost in sea foam

blue and whites of a world left behind

and suddenly the only thing left is you

your body against mine raw and insatiable

my eyes find yours and everything falls away

you and I, two lovers bound in time

there is nothing but us

heated and luminous collapsing through the expanse of slippery eternity

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