its like the waking in the middle of the night, breathless and sweaty with the pillows on the floor and the covers tangled around your ankles. The dream leaving you wrapped in silken darkness and prisoner of your own solitude.
Or its like the gasping after swimming, coming up from the deep darkness of the river bottom to the dappled sun above, breaking thru the water in a spray of cold droplets.
Its like the flutter in your stomach, when you get that electric jolt from someone you accidentally touch. You turn and they are gone but the electricity remains. If you are lucky you made eye contact. If you are really lucky you find out you already know them.
Its like the crawling, grasping hunger that you feel that is not related to food. Its a wish, its a crave, its a crush.
It is its own best friend and it drives you harder, further, longer into uncharted territories.
It grabs your stomach your heart your lungs…it steals your hunger and lightens your head.
It makes you want to dance, to sing, to scream, to cry. And all at the same time.
It sneaks up on you when you don’t expect it, overpowering your smarter senses, taking you to another place and filling your thoughts with thunder and lightning. You can only pray you aren’t driving when it shows up.
It makes your hair stand on end when you are in the shower.
It makes it hard to breathe, hard to think, hard to do anything but think of it. Desire and despair, wrapped together like a coiled snake in the dark. And you about to put your hand in its nest.
Willingly.
Apr 21
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