Stay the night and
We can watch the checkerboard of light
cast from the windows
disappear
as the sun relinquishes it’s hold on the sky.

Stay the night
and we’ll never have to find a secret place
between the gaps in the ticking of a clock.

Stay the night and
My heart will beat against you,
A crescendo against my ribcage
And for fear you’ll wake
I’ll do my best
To silence it.