She just sat there
holding her breath,
he was so close by...
she wanted to move closer still,
intoxicated by his presence.
She could almost taste his breath on hers
wanting all of him to melt into her.
She didn't know how long
she sat there in silence
with the sound of her heart
ringing in her ears,
trying to get up the nerve to touch him.
- N.R.H
She was maddeningly near.
A slight shift of his hand and their skin would touch.
He wanted to tell her all;
how she'd filled his thoughts
and left him ruined
for any other woman.
Wanted to kiss her hard;
make her forget to breathe.
He was on the precipice,
but just too afraid to leap.
What if her heart didn't feel
the same way about him?
So he just sat there;
still on the outside,
but a riot of emotion within.
- J.M.G
Then...
A sudden, strange calm fell
on the chaos inside
and in that quietness,
insight bloomed.
Opening to love
would always carry risk,
but a heart safe from pain is
also locked to joy.
Courageous words stirred
restlessly behind his teeth,
like racehorses at the gate.
He turned his head to speak and
at that very moment, so did she.
- J.M.G
Words hung in the air
sitting on the tip of her tongue.
She was in danger of pouring out
the entire contents of her heart to him,
and not so elegantly either
but words lit with passion.
Her thoughts were racing...
What was holding her back? Take a chance!
Looking back into his eyes
she found shelter there,
her heart shaking and the words
"I love you" dangling on the edge.
She told herself to just breathe and
show him now.
- N.R.H
