Stay. Right there. Let me look at you. Rain writes silver down the glass violet settles on your mouth some club three floors underneath us shakes the bottles on the shelf Your optics catch me staring and you don’t pretend you missed it there’s a little lift at one corner of your lips I know exactly what that is My fingers find your collar slow enough to let you leave you don’t You only tilt your head and make it harder not to breathe Don’t fill the silence I like what it’s doing to you That half-second hesitation before you lean in closer Keep it Let it ache Let me wonder how much longer you can take it Close enough to burn close enough to blur the room into a fever and your voice into a murmur Streetlight on your lips my hand along your side The city keeps on breathing but none of it gets inside Close enough to burn till the distance comes apart No dares no pretty alibis just shadows heat and dark Don’t tell me what you want I can feel it when you move Come close enough to burn then closer if you choose Your neural jack throws violet when you turn beneath the light mine catches just enough of it to make you look twice Your thumb traces the scar running underneath my ear not careful not careless just deliberate enough to keep me here There are braindances downstairs for chooms who need desire rehearsed pre-recorded little fantasies with every consequence reversed I’d rather have the real thing the pause the risk the way your hand stays at my waist like moving it away would take more discipline than either of us has Come a little nearer Not fast I want to notice the change in your breathing when my mouth gets close to yours Stay there one second longer Make me earn the next inch Close enough to burn close enough to blur the room into a fever and your voice into a murmur Streetlight leaves your lips when I step into its place You look at me like patience is becoming hard to fake Close enough to burn till the distance comes apart No script no rented fantasy nothing between us but dark Don’t tell me what you want your hands already do Come close enough to burn then closer if you choose Closer. That’s it. Stay. Your back against the window cold glass warm skin my coat half-open where your fingers slipped beneath it You smile like you’ve discovered something I smile because you have For all the ware beneath my skin for every upgrade money buys there are still places no ripperdoc ever touched and somehow you keep finding them I could kiss you now You know that I know you know That’s why neither of us moves Low lights wet glass your breath against my jaw Eddies on the table forgotten where they are No fixer no gig no incoming call Just your fingers hooked inside my collar and that look that says closer Close enough to burn close enough to blur everything beyond this room into somebody else’s world Your mouth almost on mine your hand beneath my coat There’s a thousand ways to lose yourself I think we found our own Close enough to burn and neither one steps back Violet across your shoulders my silhouette in black No need to name the moment no need to make it clean Just stay inside the space between what you want and what you mean Close enough to burn close enough to hear the little catch inside your breath whenever I come near The city can wait. Come closer.
