The Hours Before Dawn

I thought about the minutes
The hours
The seconds
Before I could touch you
Find you
Hold you close to me
Feel the weight of you
Next to my skin
Sinking
Falling
Breaking me so finely
Against matchless potency

The dawn breaking fast
And time
Ticking
Wasting
Pushing me to reach for you
To pull you
To wonder at the softness
Silkened by sleep
Your breath whispering
Calling
Commanding
These hands to draw you in

Together entwined
Holding
Molding
The folds on our bed
So smooth
Two hearts full before morning
Caught in dreams
Not yet awakened
Innate
Effortless
Like the air we shared
In slumber moments before