Fear and need
between us,
A standing wave
breeding uncertainty
in the silence.
eyes meet,
questioning,
sharing a quickening fire.
thoughts play, expire,
uselessly deployed.
Hearts race
on both sides
of love's abyss.
I have to wonder
I have to know,
can we bridge
the distance
the darkness,
fusing strands
of common soul?
Our touch...
hesitant,
soft,
too-careful.
Relief.
She is mine
though I have
yet to taste her flesh
in mutual
sacrificial
surrender.