First Love, Twice

Dancer

Reconciliation has finally come about,
Time has flown by, but we have grown, separately.
We'd been torn apart by all the chaos surrounding us.
Now, in this place, we have found ourselves alone together.

This moment is ours,
To make up for having never done the one thing we'd truly wanted.
Pull me close, this time I won't let you go.
Hot breaths exchanged, fueled only by the desire that has mounted over the other's absence.

Prove to me that you have lain awake at night
Imagining this, just as I have.
Let me show you the things I never had the courage to do,
Back when I had the opportunity.

Don't leave me this time,
Not when we're this far in,
Not when this flame fogs up the glass.
Please don't go.

We can live in this moment forever,
I can feel it between us.
It's like a thousand electric shocks,
A current racing in our bodies, bouncing back and forth,
From skin to skin.

I forgot what it felt like to breathe.
Before tonight, I couldn't recall what it was like to truly live.
I failed to remember how you are the oxygen that fills my lungs,
The soul that gives my own meaning.

You used to be a dancer,
Until you disappeared from this place.
But you are becoming one again
In this moment, I can sense it.

Your body is moving
With the rhythm of my racing heart.
Or maybe it is my heart
That has altered its beat,
To the tempo that your body sets.

I'm baffled by the fact that I believed
That the links between us had rusted.
We have fallen back into sync,
Similar to the way the art we practiced
Matched up to the songs that played.

My beautiful dancer,
We have become one tonight.
I fear blinking, as if this could all be gone,
If I let my eyelids flicker for just a moment.

Unable to control my actions,
I falter and blink.
Only I haven't blinked,
I have merely opened my eyes.

God help me, because I did not know,
That my eyes were shut the entire time.