Stay Unseen

Sometimes I wake before dawn Certain someone moved the air beside my neck The curtains hang still The city sleeps below yet something in me turns toward you Before permission arrives before thought can interfere as if I've known your footsteps longer than my own Stay unseen Stay close Like moonlight crossing curtains after midnight Stay unseen Stay close Don't become a memory before I've met you You're here again In the space between the lamp and the window where nobody stands I know you're near before the room grows smaller Only that familiar change like hearing a favorite song a second before it begins The glass reflects nothing Still I look twice Stay there... In the corner of becoming Not gone Not here Something between a promise and a memory Not yet... Stay unseen Stay close Like moonlight crossing curtains after midnight Stay unseen Stay close No face No proof Only this beautiful ache One breath away and worlds apart Stay unseen Stay close I tried to imagine the shape of your hands the weight of your gaze Every version broke apart before it reached you the unknown kept winning Some doors remain open Because opening them would close them Sometimes I stop breathing for half a second Certain the distance changed when nothing changed at all I tell myself It's only imagination then my skin disagrees Maybe certainty was never love Maybe love was the hallway and certainty the locked door Maybe desire survives by never arriving completely I never feel you touch me that's not the problem The problem is how much room you take without doing it How every empty chair feels occupied I think I'd miss you If you became real Stay unseen Stay close Don't become a memory before I've met you Stay unseen Stay close One step Uncrossed For reasons I can't explain Stay unseen Stay close Dawn enters quietly the room becomes itself again But something remains In the distance between objects In the pause between sounds Where certainty never arrives Stay unseen Stay close ©𓂃☽ 𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒏𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒂 ☾𓂃 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔. 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒅