I wanted to press you against me. Feel your warmth and solidity. The better to know you were real. That I was.

I wanted to pour myself into you. Merge with you. Open the floodgates. I did not care what anyone thought. In the gravity of embrace, we fell, and our blood ran together.

I wanted to take you into me. I wanted you to know. So I held you like forever, the better to let you go.