We defy laws. Bodies barely touching, separate and parallel
"it's reassuring" an attempt to comfort, slow, too slow
and your heart is a pounding contradiction
I can hardly move. The disease worms its way through
our silence. There's bleeding in my brain and fire in your eyes, but I can't kiss you goodbye
Your words demand attention, nothing makes sense
I look away

My breath is hot with anxiety. This room is stifling and impossible
the air wet and heavy with unspoken understanding and times moves on
unrelenting, unforgiving, sacrificing seconds, minutes, hours
we don't speak. we don't move. we simply breathe together until morning stirs from beneath the shadows of our doubt
I fall away

its been too long and you just wish you were someplace else, making love to me under the velvet sky.
it's so real to you
i'd be serene and damp with inspiration, above you, against you, inside you
and blades of grass would press dangerously against your flesh as I'd force you to fall in love with me
temptation is beautiful, but it's just a dream
because it doesn't feel like forever when we're dying inside ourselves

call me a romantic but this isn't how it's supposed to be
i'm out of air and out of reasons to stay
are you my oxygen? because i've forgotten how to breathe