tobias

I feel the world retreat as you light up ours

we haven’t spoken in months. the embers of our connection buried deep under the ash of all that once was, barely flickering, because love can be a wildfire sometimes.

now I am scared

I hold my breath as I reach out to you

you give it to me and I take a drag

the flames don’t devour me this time

they are a warm hug in a cold crowded café. the glow of the ember more gentle and we both know it will burn differently this time

shoulders drop and we surrender to the future as our past dissipates in a silence clouded only by smoke signals communicating an ancient desire.
flames of a new friendship fuelled by an old fire.

a small soothing smoulder spreading from my lungs satiating several synapses now soaring towards my fingertips as I pass you back our bliss

in the dead of night
under the glow of Vinyls veranda light
two cold bodies passing each other warmth
this time knowing it’s might