As I stand on the balcony, looking into the clear night, I feel your approach. I gaze wide-eyed at the stars, searching for the solution, I sense the question coming forth. In this moment, there is anticipation, and peace. I know the longing. I understand what may come. All I can do is breathe.
A slow, steady breath, carried away on the night air. Under the eyes of the Gods, I swear devotion. For it is only worth it to give yourself, if it is done in devotion.
And as I stand there, I breathe. And then you arrive.
Standing in the French doors that open to the balcony, I feel your eyes traveling my body. I can feel your gaze, like fingertips, all over me. The exhilarating chills shooting through me, like sparks. And all I can do is breathe.
I feel your presence get closer, I feel you standing directly behind me. And the warmth rises in me. Knowing that you are near, and all I do is breathe. A slow, steady breath, carried on away on the night air. Feeling you behind me, close enough to barely be touching me. I feel your rhythm. I feel the yielding in me.
Standing on the balcony together, breathing in time to each other. Knowing each other already, without having been together. Sharing a life force, an energy, a breath. In rhythm together, under the stars. Both of us now searching for the same answer.
Afraid to ask the questions which could fulfill this longing that has built up so intensely. Knowing what the answer would be. Understanding that salvation lies within devotion. The anticipation very sweetly destroys us, and yet to reach for peace would forever annihilate that longing that has been sustaining us. And as we stand together we breathe.
You take one more step, and now we stand together. As one. Breathing and being in the same rhythm. Slow, steady breath, carried away on the night air. You wrap your arms around me, draw me in to you. I feel our energies entwine and meld. Blend to make a new force. So I turn to you. And as we stand there, now gazing at each other. We breathe.
It seems like an eternity since we kissed, yet the last time is burned into my memory. And I want it again. Very gently you reach and stroke my cheek with the back of your fingers. Slowly they work down, to my neck, gliding, finding their way to the back of my head where they rest, carefully cradling it. And as we continue to gaze, the breath continues.
You pull my head towards yours, and finally, we kiss. The warmth within me has turned into heat, or maybe it is just my energy mingling with yours. At this point all deliberate thought has abandoned me. All I can do is feel. Feel my breath, feel your breath. Us as one.