In Lieu of Ghosts - In This Moment

Darling, I miss you… The way your lips wrapped around mine, like sin like lust like passion was the only language left to us. We trusted it, didn’t we? DIDN’T WE? For one moment longer, please just touch, just let our lips collide, let me feel you one more time. I know it’s wrong I KNOW IT’S RIGHT The way our bodies embraced, like the welding of fireflies on an autumn night. So brief, so delicate SO DOOMED. The touch of your soft, supple flesh I dream to caress it with these hands that shake, with these lips that ache, with these kisses that mean nothing, that mean everything. Oh darling—CAN’T WE?! CAN’T WE BE TOGETHER?! (If only for this moment!) If only in this collapsing second where the world forgets us! Give me your hand. Give me your lips. Give me your heartache. I will press it down. I will soothe it away. I will pretend the fractures don’t exist. I WILL PRETEND! Darling we can be together. I swear it. OH DARLING, WE CAN BE In this moment! With our lips—kissing. With our fingers—trembling. With our kisses—burning. WE CAN BE TOGETHER. If only we were. TOGETHER. In this moment… in this moment… just this moment. TOGETHER.