Into One

I sit in silence while your smile occupies all my thought

City lights blur like rain across the water

I move through rooms of glass and distant voices

Still your hand rests somewhere inside my chest

You stand before me, near enough that breath becomes shared air

Your eyes hold mine without release

Gravity folds the universe inward, something sacred fixed in place

The room softens as light withdraws

and darkness settles along your outline

I watch your chest rise and fall in quiet rhythm

The space between us tightens without motion

I move closer until the air becomes warm enough to belong to us

Your gaze moves over me, then returns to claim my eyes

My pulse slows in obedience to your breathing

Your hand hovers near, close enough to disturb what I am

I remain still, waiting inside your choice

You lean forward until our shadows surrender and become one

Your breath glides over the edge of my mouth

My hands remain at my sides, visible, unguarded

I let you witness what I no longer conceal

The air yields before either of us speaks

Your hand arrives with the certainty of fate

My breath falters and forgets its former discipline

Something older than will awakens within me

You draw me across the final distance without force

as though I had always been moving toward you

Your touch inscribes its quiet dominion

and I abandon the last illusion of separation

The world recedes into obedient darkness

Time bends itself around our nearness

I move toward you as rivers yield to the sea

and remain there, claimed by your gravity

Your hand rises and rests against my face at last

the same hand that reached for me across oceans and signal

I lean into you as I did your voice in the dark

and feel distance finally surrender

Your mouth finds mine with the certainty we carried through every night apart

the promise spoken in whispers meant only for us

I answer without hesitation

and hold you where you patiently waited in love

Now there is nothing left between us to survive

no ocean, no silence, no borrowed time

only your body against mine, undeniable and real

two entangled universes collapsing into one body, one mind, one love