I awaken this morning with you lingering on the verge of my tongue, not your salty - sweet sweat, but the unswallowable mention of your name. I want desperately to consume the mmmm's that flowed from my lips just moments before the alarm jolts me to reality. Try as I might, the aaaaahhhhh's won't digest either, Nor the taaa taaa taaa's. I gasp.
It always starts this way when you are gone: I curl into your invisible muscular arms, wrap legs around firm nothingness and pretend that you are here. I bury my face into your scent-laden pillow and inhale deeply. The memory of our ******* is as implanted on ebony sheets as it is in the cavernous walls of my mind. Your hands don't cease to caress thighs and calves, nor your lips to flick ***** ******* just because you are away. This is how enmeshed we are.
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