awake.
gazing out across the sparkling city skyline some ten stories above where I imagined I had left my carefully constructed common sense
I had felt it falling away as the elevator carried us higher and higher..
towards what I wasn't sure but I swore I could feel it taking my insecurities along with it, littering the ground with layer after later of things I supposed I wouldn't be needing tonight...

The blazing fire of your gaze across the small space confirmed my suspicion..
eyes voraciously shattering the last of my anxieties into oblivion.

breath.
holding it just as you held my hand.. Leading me through the sliding balcony doors
a minty breeze assaulting my senses
tickling my face as I felt
your lips on the back of my neck
tongue teasing any remaining tension from my shoulders until all that was left was want

shivers.
the same kind you sent zinning
down my spine as you pushed
me back against the railing
fear of heights forgotten
in the dizzying high
of your breath in my lungs
laughter from the streets below reduced to a soft whisper as you explored the once unknown planes of my body.

listen.
to the whispers of our clothing as they fall from our skin
littering the floor just like my long forgotten common sense.

feel.
Your lips
Your hands
Your mouth
Oh god your mouth.
Spiralling me further and further away from everything I knew before you

alive.
walking back to my car
a cool wind as rude as a shot of cold water upon my skin
Reality
Insecurities
common sense

Awake.