Marble Skin [SSC8 Sample Challenge]

Sleep… In your marble skin… Sleep in your marble skin Where no pain dreams anymore I trace the edge of your silence Like something I’ve touched before Lie still in my gaze Let the movement fall away You don’t have to become anything You don’t have to stay No pulse to follow No name to keep Only the hush Of a deeper sleep I don’t want to possess you I don’t want to undo I just want to be where you soften Into something that won’t move Where desire goes quiet Where the surface goes still I will stay at the threshold Just outside of your will Where no desire gathers No hunger finds form Your breath like a closed window Keeping out the warmth I’ve seen that kind of stillness Not in you — in me When the world lost its edges And stopped asking to be Not gone, just held there Without needing to begin Like a thought with no language Turning back in No shape to follow No name to keep Only the drift Of a deeper sleep I don’t want to possess you I don’t want to undo I just want to be where you settle Into something that holds still Where desire goes quiet Where the surface goes still I will stay at the threshold Just outside of your will I felt it open beneath me once That quiet without a name Not empty Not broken Not anything you could claim You move toward it slowly Like it’s already yours Like you remember I don’t want to possess you I don’t want to undo I just want to remain beside you As it settles in you Where desire goes quiet Where the surface goes still I am close to the threshold I am losing the will Stay… In your marble skin… Sleep... Lyrics: Cheshirah