I don't need the light
To see right under your skin
Down to the heat
Of your soul.
I don't need to be next to you
To touch you like your skin is silk.
I know you can feel it.
I know you're scared.
I know you don't know.

I know.

I know I don't need to be standing
Two inches away
To look at you like I want every breath you've ever taken
And every word you've ever thought.
Every inch of your soft skin
Every tone of your voice,
Murmured or sung.
I see you like you're bathed in candlelight
In my mind,
Your shadows are velvet and your glow is amber
And your pull is strong,
Heady like the perfume of jasmine.

It blooms at night,
You know.

I don't think I wanted you because I couldn't have you.
I wanted you because
I thought I would die
If we weren't next to one another-
Tangled right up, held-
Just at that moment.
I don't need to have you
To always want you.
I don't need to love you
To adore you.
I don't need to know you
To miss you.

I know you feel
That I am not what you've had before.
Undiluted, unrestrained,
Unapologetic.

I know
We could forget
We could forget what's good and bad
What's wrong or right
We could forget to remember why
We
Aren't us.

I know
You know
I could turn your world inside out.

Will I?
No one knows.
But I know
I want to.