Silhouettes

Still dancing, bodies intertwined or moving toward one another at the beginning of the night

Idolized, from the moment they walked in, sending and receiving glances, never with idle eyes

Listening to their breathing before the first and their heart beating afterwards

Holding them up, putting them on a pedestal with emotion, connection, and touch

Once, leaving each wanting and needing more and neither leaving because once wasn’t enough

Under the comfort and weight of the other, in the moment no longer yearning for any other

Embraced, found, at home, at peace, in the grasp of fingertips and grips of mouths on lips

Thoughts tangled in euphoric unison, minds meeting in tasteful fashion

The look and feel and knowledge of acceptance

Encapsulated in the simultaneous openness and closeness of vulnerability and contact of skin

Sheets wrapped around you and me, creating a backdrop against the night