Your fingers fold into mine and just like that I'm back.
Back to everything we had before.
So we leave.
We wander from everyone's wandering eyes.
Our hands release.
Because before was just a game.
Our feet keep time while we're gone.
Kicking up sand that mixes with the sound of our hushed laughter.
Light flashes in the corner of our eyes.
So we run.
Because we need to be where they can't find us.
Then just like that your hand finds mine.
You pull me into the woods and lace our fingers together.
Locked and intertwined with mine.
Your skin pulsing with its usual heat on a cold starry night.
I jump with every flash of a headlight as we roam the road's shoulder.
I can't lose this moment.
This moment that is my world enclosing around me.
Your arms wrapping around me,
holding my heart in my chest,
when it beats so strong it might jump out.
I look into your eyes.
If you gave me some paper I could draw them with my own closed.
I could draw them like a map for you.
If you followed it, I bet you'd find my sanity where x marks the spot.
And just then when I'm so confused that I'd like to follow the map myself,
Your lips lock mine.
My world and my sanity so far gone.
And it's then that I realize the mistake I'd made.
It wasn't this.
No, not this kiss.
The mistake was my fear.
My heart wouldn't have jumped out of my chest.
Because, silly me, I don't hold my heart anymore.
That place has been vacant for awhile since you took yours back.
No I couldn't hold my heart.
Because you do.