Pause

 

I go in your arms

learning your hug

 

I already know yours

 

It goes on warm

 

over your

leather jacket

 

I learned it fast

 

I learn slow

I’m not letting go

 

not now

 

You don’t know mine

how I want to know yours

 

I need to go

I need to go

 

That I know

                 

Then let me go

 

But I want you

to seep beneath my

leather surface

 

What can I whisper

to make you let go

 

Stop

 

make time

stop

 

Time goes

I won’t go

 

I want to learn how

you learn

 

I never learn

I just linger

 

until we’re warm enough

to have us when you’re gone