Questions for A Stranger in the Dark

Will it bother you to take my smell
out of your towels?
Will you feel the slightest heat
When you slide beneath
the blankets and realize
--too sudden-- that I am not
There to warm you?
Will your mouth taste differently
If I don't kiss it every morning for a week?
Will your hands be lonely? You did like to touch me.
(Didn't you?)
Will you wait? How long? How short is too much to even ask for yet?

I sigh and fight this feeling
Who will bless you when you leave?
Who will know when you need your neck rubbed
when you are at home when you are not at home when you're home late?
(Who'd have thought this would exist between us, should be my first question.)
I have no pretensions. I do not know you and yet I know you in a way that I cannot believe anyone else does.
I don't delude myself. I don't tell people we are "in love".
I don't believe in love but first sight
is often more reliable than second..which came often in the dark for me and hurt me when the light hit it.
What did I do to you?
Do you know, beyond the warm-wet sweet, what you did to me?
More than warming me at night, more than making me laugh and more
than the tears i left on your shoulders
(when so much rests there already)
Wish i could bring you into me in some way
that you need not feel guiltylostnotdoingyourDuty
but just me, feel me feel what i feel
when the only thing that is still real to me is
that week we had ...
do we still have it?

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