the stars lined our heartbeats

Deimos

we are all b r o k e n
that's how the l i g h t gets in

His heartbeat echoed in time of space and liberation, deliverance and providence he always knew he never deserved, but grabbed and upheld and strived to be better for. They melded and molded together in the shape of abandon, untethered, unfurled, unleashed, long lashes drawn down, eyes closed, wild and tempted, enticed and enthralled. His hands were in her hair too, climbing up and up until they were tethered and lined in gold, no escape, yearning and avaricious, souls unwinding, casting their shades upon adoration, devotion, and love. Rooted but unsettled, tongues on lips, until he might have been devoured and consumed and he’d be fine with it, with the sun burning behind eyelids and stars refraining in their entities, not even bothering to breathe, not even bothering to think.

Only when she draws back does he relent; a breathless whim shuddering through lungs and hearts, no evasion, no elusion; perhaps the only dance they simmered upon now was the notion of rapture and reverie, the infernos intertwining, piercing eyes sliding back into hers only when the sound of his name ricocheted like spellbinding syllables and phrases (and maybe that’s what he was – bound and bound and bound, intertwined and enamored, content in the way they’d found a semblance, a portion of the world not bent, not broken).

His head tilted at her question, the inclination of any other offerings bestowed (because he would argue he wasn’t worth the time) hadn’t ever settled into his mind. He couldn’t fathom the trembling notes, the anxiety brewing in the question, except thereafter, when apprehension formed itself in the pit of his bones too, the things collected in his pockets, the wares he’d concocted and created days before. “Yes,” was noted on a smile, as bright as he would allow. “I have something for you too.” If she accepted either – and it was peculiar, how insatiable their appetites, their souls, for one another, but still so utterly lost and bewildered by everything associated with it.

keep the ones who
h e a r d y o u
when you never said a word